Carolyn Forché on the Image Podcast
Image editor Greg Wolfe interviews poet and social activist Carolyn Forché.
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I’m Blade-running behind
I'm traveling at the moment, so I'll have to catch the most important sequel of the decade after everyone else has seen it. But here are some reviews worth reading.
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The Dardennes speak!
Attention to detail: Darren Hughes interviews the Dardenne brothers about observation and subtlety at work in their new film The Unknown Girl.
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Film Forum: mother! and the haters
You don't have to like Darren Aronofsky's mother!, of course. But don't condemn it without seeing it or considering its complexity. Narrow interpretations aren't good enough.
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Em-Bark on a new Wes Anderson adventure
Who let the dogs out? Looks like Wes Anderson did.
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Innocence Mission: past, present, future
A new interview with Karen Peris raises the question: Who are your favorite children's book illustrators?
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Agent Cooper goes to pieces
David Lynch’s cult-classic revival is exactly as imaginative—and as discomforting—as it always needed to be.
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Welcome to a new & improved Looking Closer!
A quick note about the design improvements you're seeing on the website.
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New Bruce Cockburn, Lizz Wright, Lone Bellow
If you act quickly, you can listen to three important new end-of-summer releases for free!
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I Don’t Want to Live In This World Anymore (2017)
Guest reviewer Daniel Melvill Jones reviews Macon Blair's directorial debut, the winner of this year‘s Sundance Grand Jury award.
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Arcade Fire Now
Arcade Fire's latest is lighter and more streamlined — the most danceable thing that they've done. They're making a whole career out of variations on "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
In Part Two of my Spider-Man focus, I zoom in on Spider-Man: Homecoming. How does it measure up to other Spidey films?
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Why I keep getting stuck in Spider-Man’s web
Spider-Man has always been the most interesting and compelling superhero for me — the only one whose movies I always want to see. Why? I think I finally figured it out.
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Maudie (2017)
Resembling Jeff Nichols's Loving and Martin Provost's Séraphine, Maudie is a magnificent film about the triumph of love over hardship and poverty in the lives of outcasts.
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Dunkirk (2017)
Nolan's latest is high on noise, chaos, and anxiety, and low on poetry. But it provides a necessary corrective to the dangerous machismo of most war films.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
David Lowery's second movie about a somewhat-invisible character is a lot more mysterious... perhaps to a fault.
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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet
(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)
– e. e. cummings, “i thank You God for most this amazing”