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Issue 94: Forgiveness

April 2021

Patton Oswalt and Kevin Corrigan in Big Fan (2009) | FilmRise

An Unfortunate Misunderstanding

Adam Bonfanti·
Issue 94: Forgiveness
Big Fan's excursion into the psyche of an alienated sports fan now plays like a prophetic warning, anticipating a number of the more ruinous social pathologies that plague this country, from the incoherent angst of working-class white men to the epidemic of loneliness engulfing them. Read More
In A Lonely Place (1950) | Art by Tony Stella

An Artist’s Apology

Zoe Kurland·
Issue 94: Forgiveness
Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place isn’t a whodunnit or a murder mystery. Rather, it’s the tale of a man who refuses to apologize for his bad behavior and the city that bends over backwards to excuse him anyways.  Read More

Please Answer This Time

Jonathon Atkinson·
Issue 94: Forgiveness
Describing News from Home’s distinct quality of attention stumps me every time that I watch. But I would like to look at what’s before me in the way Akerman does, equanimous in the face of all that vacancy and rush. Read More

Grief is the Point

Brianna Low·
Issue 94: Forgiveness
I return often to The Souvenir because what happened inside it happened to me, too. Its gift is that it hands those feelings back to me in a pure and unencumbered way. Read More

Abstract Tenderness

Ethan Warren·
Issue 94: Forgiveness
The Straight Story represents the Lynchian world redeemed, a pocket of America that battled dread and violence and won, earning its just reward. Read More

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