How do I drag my body home from campus on a weekday afternoon? With the help of “Sunshine,” off of Work of Art by Asake. A gentle release from academic anxiety: “Sun’s gon’ shine on everything you do.”
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If Culture Has Come to a Standstill, We Can Now Céline Sciamma It
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The acclaimed director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Sciamma is not interested in antagonists propelling the narrative. Rather, she explores what could happen if the narrative moved away from conflict and the characters found themselves in agreement. Because now, the story is allowed to take any shape it desires.
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Influential Cornell Women to Celebrate This Women’s History Month
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Here’s a look at some influential Cornell women whom we should be celebrating this Women’s History Month (and every month)!
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Heartbreak Feels Good in a Place Like This: An Obituary for the Regal Cinemas in Ithaca
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Farewell, The Regal. I’ll miss your crusty butter spout, indifferent teenage employees and sense of anonymity.
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Nitpicking the Sight and Sound Poll
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Once every ten years, Sight and Sound Magazine polls critics from across the globe in an attempt to construct some semblance of a canon of the greatest films ever made.
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Halloween Movies That Are More Treat Than Trick
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Horror movies might be the first thing that come to mind when thinking about what to watch for Halloween, but if you’re anything like me and scary movies aren’t your thing, then there are plenty of non-scary movies on Disney+, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that are perfect for those nights when you want more treats than tricks.
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Slasher, Semi-Slasher, Proto-Slasher, or Something Else
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Through feministic critiques and reclaimings, mainstream mockeries, Reagan-era fear campaigns and Twitter reclamations, the slasher has weathered the storm of controversy and emerged as a recognizable premise that can even be endorsed when introduced in a popular culture saturated with intellectual property and so-called “elevated horror” (as was the case with this year’s X).
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Canons of Horror: Something Spooky
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Each year, around this time, when the first icy breeze hits me, but I’m not quite ready to be shocked or frightened, I turn to spooky films and TV, allowing myself to settle in without being scared to fall asleep on a lonely night.
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Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Shows Women’s Stories Matter Too
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While deeply rooted in a specific French context, Ernaux’s work also touches on many universal themes — from class and upward mobility to family and first love.
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Beware of Books! Terrifying Tales to Read This October
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. Despite my childlike response to the horror genre, however, I can’t get enough of it. Halloween is my favorite day of the year, and I prefer to celebrate for the entirety of October.
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What I Found in the Earth
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I will never feel so suddenly close to the sense of a Roman individual as I did finding — with a magpie glance — a little glass bead in the dust, rolled away from some necklace or bracelet into the shadows. I will never appreciate time’s relentless interment of human traces more than when I was brushing layer after layer of beaten or tiled floors, all stacked atop one another like one big earthen lasagna.