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Issue 114: Romantic Comedies

December 2022

Meet-Cute at the Morgue

Calvin McMillin·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
Park Chan-wook’s new film may come to us in the guise of a detective story, a police procedural, even a quasi-erotic thriller. But at its heart, Decision to Leave is really a romantic comedy. 
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What Color Are Their Hands Now?

Mark Dzula·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
The Great Muppet Caper is ultimately a metatextual love poem to the magic of moviemaking and its raw, beating heart rests in a tenuous love triangle between Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Charles Grodin.
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In Remembrance of the Black Romantic Comedy

Sharena Sigmon·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
When I am my mother’s age, I don’t want a lulled pause after my children ask me about Black romantic comedies—I want a rich and immediate answer. 
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Caprices

Ramya Yandava·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
On Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman Is a Woman, messy relationships, capriccios, intimacy, and being in the middle of everything.
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Episode #20: Vanilla Sky (2001)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 114: Romantic ComediesPodcast
December means one thing: Happy Cruisemas, from our home to yours. This month we welcome back special Cruise correspondent Elizabeth Cantwell to discuss Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky. Surrealist rom com or indulgent puzzle film? Flop or parable?
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How Do I Love Thee?

Macy Todd·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
On the rom-com genre's obsession with numbers, love as algebra, and What's Your Number (2011)
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But by God, There’ll Be Dancing: My Best Friend’s Wedding

Catherine Ellsberg·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
My Best Friend’s Wedding takes an archetype and strays, all while revving up our expectations. It’s enough to make us wonder what film universe we’ve stepped into: is this even a romantic comedy, or have we wandered into a Greek tragedy?
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Three Square Meals a Day

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 114: Romantic Comedies
In weaker, lesser, dumber hands, Design for Living is a movie about three horny morons; in Lubitsch’s, all three characters spark and sparkle, an abundance of wit powering them through reckless indecisions.
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