Perspectives from a Professor
There is much to recommend this screen adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir detailing his experience after his parents put him in a church-affiliated gay conversion program. Certainly, with such programs still legal for minors in a majority of US states, training our awareness on these damaging programs is a worthy effort.
Just a short note on this one… Sometimes a movie seems a bit less than the sum of its parts. This assessment comes from someone with a well-documented predilection for little pictures, intimate dramas, the slice of life aesthetic, all of which–arguably–this picture has. Always a fan of Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck and mostly …
I’ve been toying with an idea about the latest version of A Star Is Born in response to critics who feel the second half of the film delves too deeply into the male pain of Jack (Bradley Cooper, who also directs) at the expense of Ally’s (Lady Gaga) character.
While talking with a friend last night about First Man, I remembered that I never mentioned my response to the film in this space. It’s a beautiful film.
In advance of tomorrow’s screening of Black Narcissus in the Women and Religion in Film series (part of a/perture cinema’s Looking @ Art Film program), I asked series organizer Joshua Canzona to share some thoughts about the film (and I’m especially pleased to see his surprising reference to the Bechdel test!). You can watch Black …