Two Ends of Reality: Martha P. Nochimson on “Quantum Screens: Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television”

As I spent twelve hours in the hospital last week, waiting for my dad to recover from his long-belated knee replacement surgery, I found a liberating mode of escapism in devouring author and professor Martha P. Nochimson’s latest marvelous book, Quantum Screens: Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television. On the basis of its delicious theories […]
Nadia Terezkiewicz brings to life a 1930s starlet in “The Crime is Mine”

I love films from the 1930s. They were shockingly bold, and most of them were ahead of their time. A few years ago, I realized I had not seen a lot of films from this decade. I remember my grandma would always watch Busby Berkeley films when I was a young kid, but beyond that, I […]
Cinema Femme at Sundance Day 4: Happening, Alice, Hatching and Nanny

Happening The two best films I’ve seen thus far in 2022 won acclaim on the festival circuit last year prior their premieres at Sundance, and both happen to be astonishingly vivid portraits of female identity: Joaquim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” and Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” the latter of which won the top prize […]
