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Smells Like Teen Spirit: Moulin Rouge at 20

Anna McKibbin
June 1, 2021
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
Moulin Rouge! is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, kind of. It’s also based on the opera La Bohème, but again, only kind of. It’s been compared to the opera La Traviata, the novel Nana, and the...
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15 Years On, High School Musical Still Promises The Start Of Something New

Jess Goodman
January 22, 2021
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
One successful franchise. Three iconic films. A straight-to-DVD spin-off, a reality TV show, and a series of books. A concert tour, a stage musical, and a production on ice. It has been adapted into foreign...
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The Coen Brothers, Charles Portis, and True Grit

Rory Steabler
December 21, 2020
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Ten years on from its release, True Grit has settled firmly into the middle ground of Joel and Ethan Coen’s filmography. It's well-respected in the Coen canon but doesn’t seem to be many people’s...
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A Love Letter to… The Great Dictator

Jess Goodman
November 18, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” For Charlie Chaplin, making people laugh was part of who he was. Having made his...
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A Love Letter to… All About Eve

Angela Moore
October 8, 2020
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All About Eve, which turns 70 this year, is mostly remembered for two things: its precise, acerbic screenplay, and its star, Bette Davis, who gives the ultimate Bette Davis performance in the ultimate Bette...
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A Love Letter to… Seven, after 25 years

Jess Goodman
September 21, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” So concludes Morgan Freeman’s character in the final moments of Seven. On paper,...
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Goodfellas, 30 Years On: You Always Want to be a Gangster

Louise Burrell
September 17, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” And so was born an instant classic, a film that’s considered one of the greatest of all time. Goodfellas explored the ultimate...
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Love Letter: Buster Keaton’s One Week, 100 Years On

Jess Goodman
September 1, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
“Who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long years ago when...
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Unbridled Hope in On the Town

Anna McKibbin
August 1, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
Before the three protagonists of Gene Kelly’s On the Town come bounding into frame, the audience is greeted with a series of sweeping shots of the static New York skyline. We see a construction worker...
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Forty Years On, Caddyshack Remains a Cinderella Story

Carmen Paddock
July 23, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
There are messy films that have aimed at greatness. Films whose evident care, visionary goal, and meticulous craftsmanship are apparent through the shipwreck of ambition. There are others that are deliberately...
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Atonement and the Precarity of Desire

Anahit Behrooz
July 17, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
Atonement was the film that made me fall in love with cinema. There had been films before and innumerable films since, but nothing has ever approached that heart-stopping, locking-eyes-across-a-crowded-room...
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85 Years Later, The Bride of Frankenstein Still Fascinates

Katy Moon
May 6, 2020
Analysis, Features, Love Letter
Horror sequels are no new phenomenon. Returning four years after the original Frankenstein, 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein was early proof that it takes more than an angry mob to keep a good Monster down....
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25 Years Later, Safe Remains as Chilling as Ever

Carmen Paddock
February 25, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
Today’s news often leaves little to be happy about. Spikes in carbon emissions from rainforests and permafrost have shaken previous climate models, leading experts to predict we have far less time than...
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Still Living Deliciously: A Love Letter to The Witch

Sophie Maxwell
January 27, 2020
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
This article contains spoilers... What does the word ‘witch’ mean to you? I think of cauldrons, Terry Pratchett’s novels, Sabrina and her cat Salem. Of course, there’s also the real-life Salem, the...
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A Love Letter To… The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Louise Burrell
November 20, 2019
Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia
Noah Baumbach makes his return to Netflix on 6th December with the highly-anticipated Marriage Story, currently in select UK cinemas and starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a married couple who are...
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