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by Rebecca Martin
July 10, 2026
Revisiting our interview with Carolina Cavalli ahead of the film’s Chicago release. The film opens at the Siskel Film Center on July 30, buy tickets here. It also landed a
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by Rebecca Martin
December 23, 2025
I often think about a particular scene from the second series of “Fleabag” as the year draws to a close. Kristin Scott Thomas’s character, Belinda, is at a bar with
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by Rebecca Martin
September 13, 2023
“My poems and songs have no flavor without you.” The above quote comes from my coverage of this past July’s Indy Shorts International Film Festival in Indianapolis. The words were
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by Rebecca Martin
September 7, 2023
Besides Greta Gerwig’s history-making “Barbie,” which became both the highest-grossing film of the year as well as the highest-grossing film directed by a woman, another of the most pleasurable experiences
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by Rebecca Martin
July 11, 2023
Like “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Ghost World,” the Italian gem “Amanda” is unconventionally funny and dark. As in these films, there is a longing from the protagonist for a friendship that
