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Brandon Nowalk is a freelance film and TV critic whose work has appeared on The A.V. Club, Entertainment Weekly, Indiewire, Salon, and more.
Call Me by Your Name is the latest in a long line of same-sex romances to have its queer characters diminished as empty vessels, yet this couldn’t be further from the truth. This essay is featured in the ebook Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue which is available for purchase here.
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Pablo Larraín’s dizzying chase film, Neruda, chronicles the poet’s year in hiding and the fictional detective on his tail. Read our interview with Larraín on his 2019 film Ema here.
[Read more…] about Review: Neruda — Bard on the runBrandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive. It’s an enormous six-hour movie split into three volumes, made up mostly of separate smaller stories. The film is available on VOD, Fandor, and Blu Ray.
[Read more…] about Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal