Tag: review
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Silence of the Lambs (1991)
“Hello Clarice” Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991) is so good and so seminal that I cannot begin to discuss the film’s overall impact to pop culture without spoiling it. Moreover, it’s such a masterpiece that to try to speak of plot and performances that tiptoeing around potential plot spoilers would lessen my ability…
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1953)
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”-Tennessee Williams I want to start this discussion with the framing of the American Gothic–not the painting, but the genre. American Gothic is generally characterized by stories of people with puritanical ideals and imagery of punishment and guilt for their misdeeds…