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Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions

May 2020

A Silent Voice | Kyoto Animation

‘Is This a Love Story?’: Naoko Yamada Rewrites the Love Confession

Ian Wang·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
One of Naoko Yamada’s most striking and unique traits as a director is her ability to convey the emotional intensity of a love confession, not through bombast or theatrical showiness, but through the startling vulnerability of a genuinely honest conversation.
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The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993) | Art by Brianna Ashby

I’m Enduring It

Veronica Fitzpatrick·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
What we commend as “real” in life as in film, and perhaps in Scorsese’s films in particular, we might call gritty, dark, or uncompromising; The Age of Innocence proposes otherwise. What could be more violent than a life sculpted by compromise?
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The Namesake (2006) | Fox Searchlight Pictures

We All Came Out of Gogol’s Overcoat

Roxana Hadadi·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
On the uneasy duality of Identity in Mira Nair's The Namesake.
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Haneke’s Cache | Sony Pictures Classics

Michael Haneke’s Secrets

Molly Cooper·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
Michael Haneke’s films emphatically resist interpretation, laying out strange and sometimes bewildering scenarios that remain unresolved even as the end credits roll.
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Deliver Me from L.L. Bean

Candace Jane Opper·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
Like many American landscapes, Connecticut’s pop culture identity is so omnipresent that it’s sometimes difficult to tell where the stereotypes end and the real place begins.
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Le Jeu (2018) | Netflix

Please, Spare Me Your Secrets

Lara Ryd·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
Rather than convincing us that we’re better off keeping our secrets, Le Jeu demonstrates what happens when our secrets remain stagnant—instead of providing relief, they suffocate us. 
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Life Is Short: Stunt It

Frank Falisi·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
Hot Rod is an activist text. It is not escapist; its weirdness calls attention to the flaws of our world instead of distracting from them.
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Working Girl (1988) | Art by Tony Stella

“Do I Look Like I Don’t Belong Here?”

Carrie Courogen·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
Mike Nichols' Working Girl, at its heart, is a film that examines the nuances of the intersection of class and feminism, packaged slyly in the form of a light-hearted, girl power-flavored workplace comedy. 
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Enough Said (2013) | Fox Searchlight Pictures

Kind of an Ugly Crowd

Kellie Herson·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said, a quiet, charming romantic comedy, is also the most stressful movie ever committed to film.
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Hard Eight | art by Tony Stella

The Gambler’s Ruin

Ethan Warren·
Issue 83: Secrets and Confessions
For a story as doom-laden as Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight, the mere desire to do good—and do it the right way—must be hope enough. 
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