Articles from February 2020

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Orlando

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Recently, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts put on a production of Orlando, a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. It was incredible.
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The Second Mother

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), Brazil
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The Oath

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Laura Poitras is best known for Citizenfour, a documentary about Edward Snowden’s global surveillance disclosures which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014, but few people have seen the preceding two films in the trilogy that Citizenfour completes - My Country, My Country (2006) and The Oath…
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Diablo Cody: Jennifer's Body

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Hollow hallways permeated with a monolithic student body
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Diablo Cody: Juno

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
For Juno, her whole experience started with a chair. My experience with Juno started with a text message. High school is where I began to take film more seriously, and I began looking for unique and different films to watch.
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Le Bonheur

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
An Entry from Thérèse's Diary (if things had gone differently)