Editor’s Note: Home

Editor’s Note: Home

“You think you had it rough? I didn’t find this place, I had to build it.” -Vienna (Joan Crawford), Johnny Guitar The word “home” conjures images of an ethereal space, with pies on windowsills and white lace curtains blowing in the breeze. It’s where the heart is. Yet...
Empty Hearths: Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights

Empty Hearths: Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights

For admirers of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film adaptation may seem like blasphemy. In a deft auteurist move, Arnold excises all traces of the supernatural that have defined the source text as a masterpiece of gothic literature....
She’s Lost Control, Again: Todd Haynes’s Safe

She’s Lost Control, Again: Todd Haynes’s Safe

“I love you. I love you. I really love you. I love you.” Carol White (Julianne Moore) stares into a mirror, repeating this phrase to her reflection in the final shot of Todd Haynes’s 1995 film Safe. This dénouement comes as Carol’s final offensive blow against the...
Homeland Insecurity: Kathleen Shannon’s Working Mothers

Homeland Insecurity: Kathleen Shannon’s Working Mothers

Operating within the narrow margin afforded to it, The National Film Board of Canada has produced a considerable number of the country’s most impressive films and filmmakers, particularly throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, when several bold initiatives yielded...