• Open Form

    Open Form

    “Sometimes People Just Aren’t Ready for What You’re Doing.” Zakiya Dalila Harris on The Wiz

    The Author of The Other Black Girl in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on Open Form

     
    By Open Form  November 3, 2022
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    How Magnolia Engages with the Aftermath of Being in a Dysfunctional Family

    By Open Form  October 20, 2022
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    Dawnie Walton in Praise of Say Anything’s Gangly, Vulnerable Male Lead

    By Open Form  October 13, 2022
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    Why There Are No Clear Heroes or Villains in Princess Mononoke

    By Open Form  October 6, 2022
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    Celebrating One-Note Men in Legally Blonde

    By Open Form  September 29, 2022
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    Make More Children’s Movies Like My Neighbor Totoro, Please

    By Open Form  September 22, 2022
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    How MC Hammer Helped a Classic in Asian American Cinema Get Made

    By Open Form  September 15, 2022
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    On the Quiet Radical Black Politics of the 1976 Film Car Wash

    By Open Form  September 8, 2022
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    On Hal Ashby’s Progressive Portrayal of Disability in Coming Home

    By Open Form  September 1, 2022
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    Ross Gay in Praise of Kurosawa’s Dreams and Making Beautiful (and Un-Beautiful) Things

    In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

    By Open Form  October 27, 2022
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    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on Watching a Film About Memory Loss While Experiencing Memory Loss

    By Open Form  August 18, 2022
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    Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in Get Out

    By Open Form  August 11, 2022
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    Marlowe Granados on How Charlie’s Angels Embraced Pure Fun in a Post-Y2K World

    By Keen On  June 16, 2022
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    Mira Jacob on Mississippi Masala and Discovering Herself on Screen

    This Week on the Open Form Podcast

    By Open Form  June 9, 2022
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    In Praise of John Hughes, Patron Saint of Teenagers

    By Open Form  June 2, 2022
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    Is The Godfather the Greatest Story of US Immigration Ever Committed to Film?

    By Open Form  May 26, 2022
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    Is Pearl Harbor a Film of Propaganda?

    By Open Form  May 19, 2022
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    Chelsea Bieker on the Problematic Use of Pursuit in Sleeping With the Enemy

    In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

    By Open Form  May 12, 2022
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    Leslie Jamison on the Role of the Graspy Grad Student in Midsommar

    By Open Form  May 5, 2022
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    Maybe Don’t Try to Play the Withnail & I Drinking Game

    By Open Form  April 28, 2022
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    What Does It Mean to Cook Dinner Under Occupation? Rewatching The Time That Remains

    By Open Form  April 21, 2022
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    How Wolf Girl Speaks to the Communal Experience of Marginalization

    Melissa Lozada-Oliva in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on Open Form

    By Open Form  April 14, 2022
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    In Praise of Tobey “Mopey” Maguire, Middle School Hero

    By Open Form  April 7, 2022
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    How Baldwin and Jenkins Capture Communal Black Love in If Beale Street Could Talk

    By Open Form  March 31, 2022
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    “This Is What Making Art Should Feel Like.” Ada Limón on Flashdance

    By Open Form  August 25, 2022
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