Category: International
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As I was watching La Jetée (1962), I stumbled across an interesting trend; there seemed to be a lot of fetishization of the female character. The film’s formatting seems to mandate this, as instead of using live footage, the film is almost entirely shot with still photos, and this allows the viewer to hyper fixate…
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In Aelita: Queen of Mars (1926), an apparent alien signal from the planet Mars leads to Loss, a beleaguered engineer from Soviet Russia, building a spaceship so he can forget about his marital problems. After flying to Mars in a rocket ship with his friend Gusev, Loss falls in love with Aelita, the queen of…
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As I was watching “The Lady Vanishes,” I was struck by how integral the role of thetrain is with how it regards to the female perspective. There are numerous times throughout the film where the train itself plays as a sort of extension into Iris’s mindset, especially when people are trying to gaslight her into…
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This unapologetically sexual coming-of-age tale set in early 2000s Mexico is guaranteed to turn you on and tug on your heartstrings. In August 2017, I went on a road trip through New Mexico and Arizona with my sister, my Nana, and two cousins. We visited Monument Valley and stopped by the Grand Canyon. We danced…
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