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Issue 96: Best Laid Plans

June 2021

Friends, Girlfriends, and Lovers

Brianna Zigler·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
In Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends, a best friendship is thrown to the margins as their paths to adulthood diverge.
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“A Japanese Bull in a China Shop”

Kate Blowers·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
Toshiro Mifune excelled at playing characters railing against the plan life seems to have for them.
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Of Axes, Oxes, Turkeys, and Scapegoats

Elise Moore·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
Preston Sturges had been getting away with murder—so to speak—for years before he arrived at a place where the moviegoing public couldn’t follow him.
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“Most people are not like you, Larry!”

Catherine Ellsberg·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
After 15+ years of nearly daily screenings of Curb Your Enthusiasm, I can safely say that I know the on-screen Larry David better than I know myself. 
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How It All Came Crashing Down

Ethan Warren·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
With Southland Tales, Richard Kelly asked audiences to deal with the bleakest aspects of their current reality via a tonally ambiguous, hyper-taxing, incomplete narrative. When you look at it that way, even its sub-half-million box office take might sound high.
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I’ll See You In Hell

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
The Empire Strikes Back is about doing the work after all passion for that work is gone, about the slow, hard attempts to see a long-term plan through with no hope of success in sight.
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The Way It Turns

Nathaniel Missildine·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
With human activity suspended in 2020, nature re-emerged.
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When Plans Run Counter to People

Cody Benjamin·
Issue 96: Best Laid Plans
Moneyball is not a baseball movie as much as it is a treatment on convictions, traditions, decisions, and how each of them have relational ramifications. Even the grandest plans have consequences.
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