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Issue 53: Head Trips

November 2017

The Fountain | Warner Bros.

The Road to Awe

Chad Perman·
Issue 53: Head Trips
The Fountain risks passionate earnestness, deep sincerity, and cathartic awe—offering countless opportunities for cynics to giggle or roll their eyes, but offering searchers and sufferers a way forward.
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Blade Runner 2049 | Columbia Pictures

The Velveteen Replicant

Veronica Fitzpatrick·
Issue 53: Head Trips
In the future of Blade Runner 2049, moving on is still impossible. Love, or the dream of being loved, however brief or generic or misremembered, still has the sole power to move us irrevocably.
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The Crying Game | Lionsgate

On The Crying Game and That Scene

Peter Piatkowski·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Parodies, sketches, and jokes ensured that The Crying Game secured a place in the national conversation, but that conversation was often rife with ignorance and misunderstanding.
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The Darkness Within

Barbara Soares·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is more conventionally structured than his previous films, but is still filled with all the sentiment and poetry of his more surreal works.
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Déjà vu All Over Again

Brian Brems·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale, a free-floating head trip of a movie, scrambles time to create an operatic, disorienting experience.
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A scene from The Skin I Live In | Sony Pictures Classics

Slashed Beauty: On Female Masks in The Skin I Live In, Eyes Without a Face, and Under the Skin

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Women aren’t the stories you think their bodies tell you.
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How’s It Going To End? (Or: It’s Everyday, Bro)

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 53: Head Trips
On The Truman Show, Jake Paul, and the increasingly blurred lines between the performed and private self.
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Can The Maker Repair What He Makes?

Dean Buckley·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Thirty-five years and seven versions later, it’s time we learned to live in Blade Runner's ambiguity.
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Dark City | art by Tony Stella

Behind the Story: Dark City and the Mysteries of Character

Adam Fleming Petty·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Dark City takes many of the same premises as The Matrix but follows them into territory that is far more literary, examining themes of memory, character, and fate.
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The Gospel of The Psychedelic Six-Gun

Ethan Warren·
Issue 53: Head Trips
A quartet of true "Acid Westerns" (El Topo, Zachariah, Greaser's Palace, and Dead Man) wrestle with and adapt religious traditions, synthesizing the spirit of the Wild West with the spirit of 1960s psychedelic culture.
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Sociopathy, Justice, and the Mob: Black Mirror Cracks Us Open

Geetha Iyer·
Issue 53: Head Trips
We’re all watching people watching other people to feel alive.
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Into the Zone

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 53: Head Trips
Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, unlike most films, is not an escape.
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