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Music for the end of the world
How The 1975 and Julia Holter unsettle the sights and sounds of the present
The Strand’s best of 2018
Our editors’ top pop culture picks
Review: Aquaman
Experiments in time in an inspired superhero spectacle
Playlist: I’m Psychic
Late fall songs for intimate moments
Mirror images
Notes on translation and remakes after Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Review: The Seventh Seal
On Friday, November 2, TIFF had its first screening of The Seventh Seal in its two-month-long centennial celebration of Ingmar Bergman, which runs from October 24 to December 23. I went into the screening just after reading Liam Lacey’s piece on the TIFF retrospective for Original Cin. To make Bergman “relevant to our own times,” Lacey suggests a reimagining of Bergman as a superhero—a reconceptualization so Bergman might fit in ...
Reviving childhood
On aging, nostalgia, and Netflix revivals
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
A truly Victorian performance
Armed with will and determination
Reflections on the first anniversary of Gord Downie’s passing
A look back to something forgone
Recovering the pain and passion of the encounter with an image