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Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

How should we feel about ‘The Virgin Suicides’?

By Ayjia Stanford January 24, 2024
I watched “The Virgin Suicides” twenty-five years after its release, and after speaking to a few friends, it’s clear that director Sofia Coppola’s stylistic choices may not be fully grasped by a modern audience. It is a shocking and polarizing movie — one that some see as fetishizing girls as well as mental illness.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

REVIEW: ‘Ferrari’ is a mythologized and hollow portrait

By Ada Sussman, Opinion Co-Editor December 7, 2023
From the beginning, Mann’s “Ferrari” doesn’t hold any water. Though it tries to, the film can’t tear down the image of a man because it hardly built it up in the first place –– beyond a symbol of adoration and spectacle. The film’s classical composition and artisan facade just embellish the boring emptiness within it –– “Ferrari” is an impersonal failure at a detailed portrait.
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