Tag: teenage

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

The Terror of Timelessness: Screens and Screams in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows

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Olivia Luccardi as Yara Davis, a young long-haired white brunette wearing large black-rimmed glasses and a teal hospital gown, sits up on a hospital bed at a tray with a plate, juice box, jello cup, applesauce, and a banana. In one hand is a sandwich on white bread with a bite taken out of it, and in the other is her pink clamshell e-reader, which is she is staring into. A wrinkled periwinkle pillow and bed sheet are behind her, as are white vertical blinds and a calm blue curtain.

|Chris Polley| I was lucky enough to see David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows in the theater when it was originally released a little under 10 years ago today. At a movie theater that no longer exists, playing hooky from work after lunch but before daycare closed, I was already a bit anxious, being a goody two-shoes… Continue reading