The mistake Maud makes, that many of us make, is to believe that our restlessness and impatience will yield some sort of sign that God is listening.
The Leftovers makes two competing claims: that other people are mostly what gives life meaning; and that, despite guaranteed loss, we have to invest in them anyway.
An Unmarried Woman, 20th Century Women, Freaks & Geeks, and the malaise of being an American woman during the Carter era.
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.
In Noelle’s search for justice, she slowly realizes that violent confrontation of those who have wronged you does not necessarily equate instant freedom.
I wasn’t ready for The Meyerowitz Stories when it was first released, just as I wasn’t ready for forgiveness—to ask for it or to bestow it.
Our pilot episode is here! Join hosts Veronica Fitzpatrick and Chad Perman as they talk through a perennial BW/DR staff favorite, Moonstruck (1987), with special guest Zosha Millman.
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.
Every adoption story is unique, yet every adoptee shares a common quality to our stories of origin: our entrance into a family is not solely through birth but through choice, a choice made entirely outside of our control.
There were days where I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to be able to sit with loved ones and share these first-time viewings in real time, and others when the combination of quarantine cabin fever and less-than-stellar runs of films made it seem like everything would be mediocre. A privilege and, 32 movies, shorts, and episodes later, a pile-up.
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.
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.