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Issue 84: Hangout Movies

June 2020

Jacques Tati in Playtime (1967) | Criterion

We’ll Always Have Paris: Tati’s Playtime

Joel Mayward·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
The languid pacing of Jacques Tati's Playtime forces us to be present in the moment, to look around and observe this cinematic world, to simply be.
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3 Idiots: Or, On Abundance

Nitya Rayapati·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
This is what 3 Idiots offers us, a swift removal of the veil, suggesting that if we skim away societal expectations, we might rescue a pure, energizing freedom.
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Wading into Nostalgia

Jonathan Mahon-Heap·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
Anyone who has ever enjoyed (or endured) a long weekend with friends will recognize the melody of A Bigger Splash.
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Drew Barrymore in SCREAM (1996) | Miramax

VHS Horror Culture: Scream as the Ultimate Millennial Hangout Movie

Erica Hoffmeister·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
As adults, most of us revisit these movies no longer as part of the horror genre, but instead as a nostalgic indulgence; as the last group of teenagers who came of age by VHS, the ‘90s teen horror cycle resurrected by Scream symbolizes our collective coming-of-age experience.
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Local Hero (1983) | Criterion

I Feel Like I’ve Been Here Forever

Andrew Cothren·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
Bill Forsyth’s 1983 masterpiece Local Hero is perhaps the greatest film ever made about attuning to the frequency of a place, of someone fitting in when and where they least expected.
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Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunset | art by Brianna Ashby

Just in Time: Finding True Companionship Before Sunset

Adam Membrey·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
Part of what makes Jesse and Céline’s connection so electric is the difference between being heard and being understood. When you feel understood, it feels like the first and most important time you’ve told the story. You feel like you’re alone in the world together.
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Song to Song (2017) | art by Tony Stella

[birds singing outside]

Frank Falisi·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
“Deep listening” to Malick is valuable, but only so much in that it reminds us that artists are just humans doing their best to be in the world with other humans.
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The Band's Visit (2007) | Sony Pictures Classics

The Band’s Visit and the Ties That Bind Us

Bonnie Qu·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
The Band’s Visit lets us know, right from the start, that what happens here may be small and quiet, but it matters. It may not seem like it on the surface. It won't change the world. It may not even change the lives of the characters within it. But, even so, it matters.
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco | art by Brianna Ashby

The Pursuit of Home

Priscilla Ward·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a love letter to its city.
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Everything There and Around Us

Ethan Warren·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
I felt drawn to Stand by Me in a way I had never been drawn to a movie before, longing each day to reimmerse myself in this soft-focused sun-dappled boy’s idyll. But still I wonder: what parts of me did this movie speak to?
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We’re Playing Space Explorers

Carrie Courogen·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
On Judy Berlin (1999) and Madeline Kahn's best, most nuanced, and final performance.
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Humpday (Lynn Shelton, 2009) | Magnolia Pictures

Lynn Shelton’s Humpday: On Men and Closeness

Spencer Williams·
Issue 84: Hangout Movies
Lynn Shelton’s camera in Humpday is a scalpel, opening the flesh of male-on-male anxiety with precision and nuance.
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