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Issue 113: Recovery

November 2022

Episode #19: Pain and Glory (2019)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 113: RecoveryPodcast
Veronica and Chad are joined by writer and Powell's Books managing editor Kelsey Ford to talk about Pedro Almodóvar’s "wildly tender" exploration of autobiography and artistic process, Pain and Glory.
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I Live In A World I Didn’t Make

Travis Woods·
Issue 113: Recovery
Underneath its reputation, unseen and unloved, Hal Ashby's 8 Million Ways to Die is also a kind of secret miracle, one of the best L.A. crime films most have never given half a chance.
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A Miracle’s Underside

Julia Mueller·
Issue 113: Recovery
On Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002), a theology of miracles, equivocal goods and equivocal evils, romantic possibility, and miraculous recovery.
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The Strange Horror of Failure

Ross Showalter·
Issue 113: Recovery
Hush shows us the disabled experience, even if it never comments on it. Hush cares about its protagonist, but not the community to which she belongs.
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We Will Love You Until You Can Love Yourself

Julia Sirmons·
Issue 113: Recovery
As a recovering addict, it’s a complicated thing, this desire to “see” myself on the screen.
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Never Just a Movie

Nathaniel Missildine·
Issue 113: Recovery
On Chris Rock's Top Five and how difficult it can be to know exactly where the show ends and the reality begins.
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It’s Called a Repair

Ethan Warren·
Issue 113: Recovery
C’mon C’mon isn’t necessarily about making the world as a whole comprehensible to a child. It’s about grappling with how comprehensible to make one key fact: his mom isn’t with him because his dad is having a manic episode.
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This Is the Way the World Endures

Emma Ward·
Issue 113: Recovery
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is about hope lost, but it’s also about hope willfully recovered.
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Running to Stand Still

Adam Membrey·
Issue 113: Recovery
I was not terrified of being Deaf. I knew what it felt like.
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After Yang (2021) | Art by Tom Ralston

Saying Goodbye

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 113: Recovery
On Kogonada’s After Yang and its depiction of grief, love, belonging, and the lovely, wounding ache of memory.
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