Tag: Joaquin Phoenix

Schrödinger’s Cat Walks Into a Bar…

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|Nazeeh Alghazawneh| “You know how you get rid of crabs? You got to shave one testicle. All the crabs go over to the other testicle, you got to light the hair on fire on that one. When they all go scurrying out, you take an ice pick and you fucking stab every single last one of them!”… Continue reading

The Many Singular Faces of The Master

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|Ryan Sanderson| When The Master came out in 2012, a lot of the conversation centered around Scientology–which made sense, at least at first. “Auteur Wunderkind Attacks World’s Most Litigious Religion!” makes for a pretty compelling headline. “Auteur Wunderkind Explores Identity… Continue reading

A Woman’s Place in Television, Ambition and Murder: Gus Van Sant’s To Die For

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Nicole Kidman with strawberry blonde hair, purple eyeshadow, dark pink lipstick, dark pink jacket, gold earrings, staring into the camera in midspeech with white background. White text, "You're not anybody in America unless you're on TV," fills bottom of image.

|Penny Folger| To Die For plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 10th through Sunday, January 12th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, released in 1995, showcases a bristlingly ambitious woman named Suzanne Stone, played by Nicole Kidman, who will stop at nothing… Continue reading

Columns on Kidman: Revisiting To Die For 30 Years Later

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A black and white newspaper photo of Suzanne, portrayed by Nicole Kidman, happily reporting the weather for a television news broadcast.

|Ben Jarman & Carey Nadeau| To Die For plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 10th through Sunday, January 12th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. The teens in this film are not realistic. That’s the only negative thing I thought about Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, but I… Continue reading