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Sorcerer

No Way To Managua: Bridging the Forces of Fate and Identity in William Friedkin’s Sorcerer

Travis Woods·
Issue 71: Resilience
Sorcerer (1977) | art by Tony Stella
Obsessed with manifesting Sorcerer’s message on film, Friedkin failed to see he was living that very message during its sanity-snapping production: that which is behind us cannot be returned to. All one can do is persevere for as long as possible into the fates that our pasts have shaped for us.
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Apocalypse Now: How ‘Sorcerer’ Proves That the World Already Ended

Christopher Cantwell·
Issue 12: The End of the World
The world as a whole ended a long time ago. This is Purgatory.
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