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Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield

February 2014

The End of the End: An Evolution of Faith, in Five Films

Jenny Hollowell·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
On growing up a Jehovah's Witness and escaping through movies.
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After Midnight

Tracy Wan·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
On the Before trilogy, and when midnight comes for love.
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You & Me

Chad Perman·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
We all want happily ever after, or at least a chance to believe it exists—which is precisely why a film like Blue Valentine is so hard to watch.
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Howl at the Moon

Karina Wolf·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
But Bull Durham also shows us what we should love about growing older—how external and internal circumstance define possibility, and increase pressure to use time most preciously.
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Habitual Emotion

Christopher Fraser·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
Instead, Don Jon shows the pathology of addiction around a substance that is rarely conceded as addictive in the first place.
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Hello, I Must Be Growing

Tess McGeer·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
In the very first moments of Todd Louiso’s Hello I Must Be Going there is a close-up on Melanie Lynskey’s eyes where they are so dark as to look pupil-less.
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Be Fair to Love

Neil Fox·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
In The Broken Circle Breakdown, love doesn’t necessarily survive. Because sometimes, the film seems to say, it can’t.
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Six Sonnets for Bright Star

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
On Bright Star and Fanny Brawne.
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Film’s Best Friend

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 9: Love is a Battlefield
I’m interested in something deeper, something that may seem silly or overwrought to people who don’t have animals in their lives. I’m talking silver screen love stories between human beings and their dogs.
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