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Issue 59: Second Time Around

May 2018

I’m Coming Back

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
On 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, and love.
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Paris, Texas | art by Tony Stella

The Perils of Riding Off into the Sunset

Darryl A. Armstrong·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
Paris, Texas helped me, even while, in some ways, it failed me.
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From Emir to Enemy, and Back Again: My Changing Reactions to Emir Kusturica

Fedor Tot·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
We so often write about films with assertiveness, but the truth is, it’s hard to be certain about anything.
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Best Damn Tapper, Most Smartest

Kellie Herson·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
To this day, whenever I meet someone else who loves Drop Dead Gorgeous, I know we’ll get along.
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Sensing Suspiria: Feeling Film from VHS to Blu-ray

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
Suspiria’s impact relies less on knowing what is going on, than in having the experience of perceiving it.
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The Laws We Make For Ourselves: Re-Litigating Amanda Bonner

Emma Koch·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
Adam's Rib had everything that a young me might have wanted in a film, but my feelings toward it now are a lot more complicated.
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Will & Grace & Jack & Karen

Hope Rehak·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
The Will & Grace revival episodes are more than just the sum of their nostalgic parts—and for the record, those parts were also pretty great. 
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We Go As Late As I Want To Take It

Brian Brems·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
Manhunter stands in awe of Will Graham’s mental acuity, but it also never fails to confront the danger of that mind—and doesn’t blink at the consequences to Graham’s personal life or his own stability.
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Love in the Mirror

Jacqueline Choe·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin treats unspoken meaning as an art.
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There’s More to This World Than You Have Seen

Ethan Warren·
Issue 59: Second Time Around
Punch-Drunk Love—Paul Thomas Anderson’s fourth film, released when he was just 32 years old—puts you on uncertain footing from the very first frame.
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