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by Matt Fagerholm
December 5, 2025
A longtime holiday wish of mine will be granted this month when I finally get to see one of my favorite actors perform in person. As part of her “Spending
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by Matt Fagerholm
November 17, 2025
As I sat in my favorite movie palace, the Music Box Theatre, waiting for my wife—Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin—to arrive for that evening’s eagerly awaited Chicago International Film Festival
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by Rebecca Martin
October 20, 2025
Mary Bronstein is a writer/director based in New York City, known for her raw style, auteurist approach, and unflinching focus on stories about complicated women. Her best-known work, the cult-classic
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by Matt Fagerholm
September 30, 2025
“If you can’t play with the language, you are not reinventing the language.” This is what Argentine director Gaspar Noé told me when I interviewed him fifteen years ago about
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by Rebecca Martin
August 29, 2025
In the heart of the Oregon wilderness, a reclusive Woodsman (Ivan Martin) stumbles upon a teenage runaway, Dani (Maddison Brown), barely clinging to life. What begins as a reluctant act
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by Rebecca Martin
August 29, 2025
This September, The Popcorn List—the annual survey spotlighting acclaimed films without U.S. distribution—takes its impact beyond the page and onto the screen. With the launch of The Popcorn List: Pop
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by Rebecca Martin
August 1, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein. Still making headlines. But the women impacted by his crimes—by his misogyny—are rarely named. Many choose to remain anonymous, but not all. So where are their stories? Writer
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by Matt Fagerholm
July 8, 2025
I was ten years old when Danny DeVito’s euphoric screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel Matilda arrived in theaters. I had read the book so many times that the
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by Matt Fagerholm
June 24, 2025
As annoyed as I was about Barry Jenkins, one of the greatest filmmakers working today, recently helming a prequel to the worst Disney remake in history, the Oscar-winning director of
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by Matt Fagerholm
May 23, 2025
It’s difficult to put into words the gratitude I have for Sabrina S. Sutherland. The collaborations she forged with filmmaker David Lynch, particularly over the last decade, have transformed my
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by Matt Fagerholm
May 1, 2025
Throughout human history, few things have discomforted patriarchal societies quite like the candid thoughts of women. French author Françoise Sagan was only 18 when she published her wildly popular 1954
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by Matt Fagerholm
April 12, 2025
This was one of two Log Lady quotes I incorporated into my speech while officiating my brother-in-law and fellow “Twin Peaks” fan Joe’s wedding last year in Washington state. It
