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Issue 60: That’s Entertainment!

June 2018

Now More than Ever

Katherine Webb·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
The Player, Robert Altman, and Hollywood.
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Cinematic Memory and the Self’s Labyrinth in 8 ½ and Knight of Cups

Nick Olson·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
Comparing Fellini's 8 ½ and Malick's Knight of Cups reveals the deep relationship between memory and imagination, including the manifold ways that cinema functions as memory, opening up paths through which we might make sense of things.
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Coming Out of The Celluloid Closet

Peter Piatkowski·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
The Celluloid Closet is about queer cinema, but it’s also about how queer audiences sought it out in order to validate our existence at a time when validation was hard to come by.
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Something True and Right and Dramatic: Boogie Nights as Religious Experience

Britton Andrews·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
Like any good magic trick, Boogie Nights disrupted my understanding of the world.
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You Have to Fail a Little

Melissa Baumgart·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
On Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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Bowfinger: Movies, Improvisation, and The Art of Keeping It Together

Kate Pehrson·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
"These people love the movies, and they believe in this movie. Their only sin is they have no talent."
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The Red Shoes | art by Tony Stella

Someone Else’s Shoes

Susannah Gruder·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
Throughout their body of work, Powell and Pressburger return to the question of whether life and art can co-exist, and if the urge to live or the urge to create will win out in the end.
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Find the Lady: Following the Shell Game of the Movies in Bombshell

Karen Chau·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
Bombshell teaches us that life may be nothing more than a series of performances—overlapping, contradicting, and unstable.
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That Is So Moral Majority

Tess McGeer·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
On the Horror Movie, and, also, the horror movie Scream 3.
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All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979) | art by Tony Stella

Hello Loneliness, I Think I’m Gonna Die: Bob Fosse’s Dance with the Five Stages of Grief in All That Jazz

Travis Woods·
Issue 60: That's Entertainment!
An impressionistic weave of artistic successes and personal failings, All that Jazz is at once a confession, a self-promotion, a showbiz love letter, an apology, a middle finger, and a darkly-comic musical, all braided into an exploration of the five stages of grief.
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