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Feeling Seen

Feeling Seen: Song of the Exile

By Phoebe Chen
April 1, 2020
Family ties: Ann Hui’s 1990 family drama is striking in the way it parcels out knowledge of cultural history as a gradual, lived revelation

Feeling Seen: Ordinary People

By Kaleem Hawa
February 21, 2020
People person: Robert Redford’s 1980 melodrama is tied to a racial politics and social lineage that we are only now in the process of examining

Feeling Seen: Guys & Dolls

By Christina Newland
February 4, 2020
Boys will be boys: there are only hustlers and patsies in the world of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1955 musical

Feeling Seen: John Sayles, Bruce Springsteen, and Baby It’s You

By Caden Mark Gardner
November 7, 2019
My hometown: Sayles’s film uses the Boss’s tunes to capture a place and people caught between eras

Feeling Seen: A Day of Us

By Jaime Grijalba
August 8, 2019
Animal magnetism: a Korean animated web-series touches upon the small truths of living with a partner

Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now?

By Phuong Le
July 9, 2019
Adrift in history: much of Apocalypse Now portrays Vietnam as a spectacular but soulless backdrop for moral ruminations

Feeling Seen: Edward Yang’s Yi Yi

By Lawrence Garcia
June 13, 2019
Mirror of nature: how shifting languages and dialects evoke the personal and political in Yang's family epic

Feeling Seen: JT LeRoy

By Mackenzie Lukenbill
May 28, 2019
Crossing lines: Kristen Stewart turns in another in a series of gender-blurring roles

Feeling Seen: Roberto Gavaldón, Misanthrope

By Carlos Valladares
May 22, 2019
Pity and fear: The Mexican filmmaker takes his rightful place as the evil twin of such cinematic poets of fate as Frank Borzage and Jacques Demy

Feeling Seen: Avengeance

By Nick Pinkerton and C. Spencer Yeh
May 15, 2019
Hello darkness: a conversation about Avengers: Endgame, genre, and the homogenization of the multiplex