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Beyond POV: Sound and Paradox in Film
For July's FilmStack Challenge
Jul 1
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Justin Horton
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Beyond POV: Sound and Paradox in Film
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May 2025
No Film Has Captured Southern Ambivalence Better Than Junebug
For its 20th anniversary, a labyrinthine look back at the film and at the rankling emotional wounds we suffer at the expense of things left unsaid.
May 21
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Justin Horton
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No Film Has Captured Southern Ambivalence Better Than Junebug
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April 2025
Want to Improve the Moviegoing Experience? Start by Losing the Recliners.
Plush auditoriums are great, but they shove smaller films to the margins
Apr 30
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Justin Horton
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Holding the American West to Its Promises
In 'On Swift Horses,' Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi seek to carve out spaces for themselves in an uneven, queer two-hander.
Apr 21
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Justin Horton
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A Dispatch from My Sick Bed
Notes from a Movie Marathon, Brought to You by COVID-19
Apr 2
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Justin Horton
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February 2025
The Gospel According to Movieguide
Decoding the Bullshit of One of the Culture Wars' Most Insidious Operators
Feb 7
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Justin Horton
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January 2025
Watching : Listening
Diegetic Music and Character Revelation
Jan 30
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Justin Horton
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Today's My Birthday. Let Me Talk to You About 'My Old Ass.'
After reading my recent essay on Paranoid Park, one of my oldest friends texted me to say, teasingly, “You’re such a sucker for coming-of-age movies…
Jan 21
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Justin Horton
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Today's My Birthday. Let Me Talk to You About 'My Old Ass.'
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December 2024
Three Shots, and Oh So Many Echoes: 'Paranoid Park' (2007)
How Gus Van Sant packs decades of cinematic allusions and obsessions into one deceptively simple scene
Dec 20, 2024
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Justin Horton
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Three Shots, and Oh So Many Echoes: 'Paranoid Park' (2007)
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Repetition Compulsion: 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976)
Why was Clint Eastwood's revisionist western the only movie my late father would bother to re-watch?
Dec 6, 2024
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Justin Horton
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Repetition Compulsion: 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976)
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November 2024
One Perfect Scene: 'The Spectacular Now' (2013)
It's one thing to describe being drunk and in love. It's quite another to make the viewer feel it.
Nov 22, 2024
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Justin Horton
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One Perfect Scene: 'The Spectacular Now' (2013)
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Scenes I Love (From Movies I Don't): 'Babel' (2006)
Eight sublime minutes of inspired sound-image interplay nearly save a shitty film from itself.
Nov 1, 2024
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Justin Horton
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Scenes I Love (From Movies I Don't): 'Babel' (2006)
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