Archive - Film Daze

JULY 2024’S DOUBLE FEATURE: MADELINE KAHN

Cinema Club is Back in a New Format!

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Head in the Clouds: Detaching Oneself from Trauma through Spectacle and Media in 'Nope'

Jordan Peele’s 'Nope' is most frightening when interrogating its characters inability to confront their traumas.

Jul 24 •

June 2024

"Self-appoint, Make the Rules, Claim the Throne” Cavalier Feminism in 'Poor Things’ and 'Get On Your Knees’

Despite their obvious differences, both productions present a cavalier feminism that confronts misogyny head-on, laughs it off, and keeps strutting.

Jun 30 •

Total(ity) Cinema: Asteroid City's Celestial Flirtation

Watching the solar eclipse in April, I thought repeatedly about 'Asteroid City' and the way Wes Anderson uses its alien encounter to liken one’s…

Jun 11 •

April 2024

Berlinale Finale: 'La Cocina' & 'Jane Planet' Review

Our last two reviews from Berlinale

Apr 29 •

Cinema Club #18 (April, 2024)

Prepare for trouble! / And make it double!

Apr 16 •

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Michael Mohan on Crafting the Haunting Beauty of 'Immaculate'

The director sits down with Isabella Vega to discuss making the Sydney Sweeney-helmed horror film

Apr 2 •

March 2024

'La Chimera' Review: A Dreamlike Fable of Grief and its Destruction

Alice Rohrwacher’s continued exploration of magical realism is a visual feast full of potential, but something is lacking in the film’s expression of…

Mar 29

Dispatches from the Big Bear: 'I Saw the TV Glow'

Elif's Second Dispatch from the 2024 Berlinale Festival

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‘Immaculate’: A Seraphic Act of Autonomy

Sydney Sweeney's latest film doubles as an exploration of autonomy for both its protagonist and its star.

Mar 25 •

The Hopeless Romantics of Aki Kaurismäki's Finland

Aki Kaurismäki’s movies remind us that, while time has moved on, people and their conditions have not changed as much as we would’ve hoped.

Mar 22 •

Dispatches From The Big Bear - Reviews: 'Love Lies Bleeding' & 'Crossing'

Berlinale 2024 Dispatch: A Self-Righteous Festival Brimming With Potential

Mar 14 •

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