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Issue 44: True Stories

February 2017

Madman Theory: ‘Frost/Nixon’ and The Feeling That This Has All Happened Before

Katherine Webb·
Issue 44: True Stories
History has not been kind to Richard Nixon. Nor, by and large, has pop culture.
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What You’re Fixin’ To See Is A True Story

Rosie Jonker·
Issue 44: True Stories
On Richard Linklater's Bernie and depictions of the south.
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On Being “Brave”: Watching and Re-watching Boys Don’t Cry

E.D.·
Issue 44: True Stories
The first time I realized I was transgender, I was doing the dishes.
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Hunt the Boar

Andrew Root·
Issue 44: True Stories
In the early 1990s, Al Pacino began a project that would span years and continents; a multi-level documentary chronicling his attempt to understand and convey how he felt about Shakespeare’s Richard III.
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Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro

Lauren Wilford·
InterviewsIssue 44: True Stories
Lauren Wilford goes long with director Guillermo del Toro on art, life, death, morality and movies.
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Meryl Streep is Susan Orlean, Notes on Adaptation

Manuel Betancourt·
Issue 44: True Stories
Streep’s take on writer Susan Orlean is both impossibly plausible and shamelessly fabricated. It is the film’s thesis made flesh.
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Home Movies

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia·
Issue 44: True Stories
In a way Stories We Tell is the version of a story Sarah Polley was forced to tell at gunpoint.
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A Perfect Harmony

Karen Han·
Issue 44: True Stories
Amadeus treads a middle ground between the divine and the damned.
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Look Him in The Eye: The Problem with Filming the Story of Lance Armstrong

Grace Organ·
Issue 44: True Stories
The Program, then, came at the right time to face that “ugly truth” head on: Armstrong had confessed and had been vilified by the same press that once loved him.
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When the System Works

Wade Bearden·
Issue 44: True Stories
Herein lies the chief moral perplexity of David Fincher’s Zodiac: as a society, we desire justice, but when confronted with ambiguity, we’re tempted to disregard the law in order to achieve it.
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The Lies Capote Tells

Rae Nudson·
Issue 44: True Stories
Capote, the 2005 biopic that imagines Truman Capote while he was writing In Cold Blood, expertly navigates the murkiness of fact and fiction in the author’s life and work.
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