Sydney Sweeney

2025 Films, Drama, Interviews, LGBTQ+, Queer Stories

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Look for the Signs: Christy Salters Martin and Lisa Holewyne on “Christy”

by Matt Fagerholm

November 4, 2025

I went into David Michôd’s biopic “Christy” knowing nothing about its titular boxer. I knew I would be interviewing the film’s real-life subject, Christy Salters Martin, the following morning, and

Interviews

26 min read

Shelter from the World: Iliana Zabeth on “House of Pleasures,” #MeToo in France and More

by Matt Fagerholm

April 9, 2024

One of the finest female ensembles in recent years can be found in Bertrand Bonello’s 2011 masterwork, “House of Pleasures,” originally titled “L’Apollonide” in France, the name of the Parisian

All-Star, Interviews

12 min read

Lara Jean Gallagher heightens visual storytelling in her first feature “Clementine”

by Rebecca Martin

May 8, 2020

You can’t watch Lara Jean Gallagher’s film without thinking of the 1966 classic “Persona”, directed by Ingmar Bergman, especially one scene, when Bibi Andersson is talking to Liv Ullmann about

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