Poor Things Playing God in this Yorgos Lanthimos original film, Willem Dafoe plays s a cross between Dr. Frankenstein and the mad scientist’s monster. His crudely stitched facial scars (kudos to make up artists) belie a childhood of cruel experimentation. Decades later, the benign Godwin Baxter continues his father’s research, reanimating a fully grown woman […]

Narrative Structure The tale is divided into a prologue and three parts (my division) Prologue: Chase The incident that precipitates Scottie’s Vertigo Part 1: Scottie consents to watch over Madelene, following her wherever she goes and gradually falling for her. Part 2: Madeleine’s attempted suicide; Scottie’s rescuing her; development of relationship, which end with her […]

Rather than eschew political engagement with democratic theorizing, Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.

Saboteur (1942) Hitchcock makes his trademark cameo appearance about an hour into the film (1:04:37), standing at a kiosk in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteurs’ car pulls up. In his book-length interview with François Truffaut (Simon & Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock says he and Parker filmed a cameo showing them […]

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