Dialogic Cinephilia - May 9, 2021

“Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because, I believe, it increases our awareness of our own potentiality.”
— John Berger, Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing (1960)

Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn. "Swept Away: A Thematic Dive Into the Depths of Undine."  Curzon (April 1, 2021)

Corcoran, Miranda. "I Care a Lot, Or Not Enough: Bad Caregivers in Saint Maud (2019) and I Care a Lot (2020)." Diabolique (April 6, 2021)

Davis, Joseph E. "When Your Authenticity is an Act, Something's Gone Wrong." Psyche (March 31, 2021)

Dorian, M.J. "Listener Q&A." Creative Codex #10 (September 2019) ["Our first Listener Q&A episode!!! So many compelling questions including: Are left handed people more creative? Was Nikola Tesla spiritual? How do you quiet the doubting voices in your mind? What was Frida Kahlo's life like after the accident? Is creativity a supernatural force? What is the nature of evil?"]

---. "The Origin of Art." Creative Codex #1 (August 18, 2018) ["Travel back 40,000 years to the first known art made by human hands. How did creativity begin? Why does 'art' exist?"]

Mobarak, Jared. "Sugar Daddy Review: Paid Dating Scene Drama Unpacks Transactional Existence in a Misogynistic Society." The Film Stage (April 5, 2021)

Solis, Jose. "Minari Star Youn Yuh-jung on Memories, Mountain Dew, and a Myopic America." Film Stage (March 5, 2021)

Wilson, Carl. "Daze of Our Lives: Revisiting Richard Linklater’s shaggy classic." Bookforum (May 2021) 

Zoladz, Lindsey. "Rock and Roll Arrives in Cold War." The Current (April 7, 2021)