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Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

“What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?”

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Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill,” and the End of Music Charts As We Knew Them

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 10, 2022October 19, 2022

Thanks to season four of Stranger Things, Kate Bush’s song, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” has topped the charts, 37 years after its release. Nate Rogers takes a look at how this happened, and what it means for the music industry, and especially older, legacy acts. Drenched in gated reverb and woozy […]

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Every Language Everywhere All at Once

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 8, 2022October 19, 2022

As our choices for films and television shows made around the world increase in the streaming era, so do the challenges of translation. Rafael Motamayor explores the art — and complicated process — of translating foreign content for international viewers. We are far removed from the days of flagrant cultural erasure through dubbing — Pokémon […]

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Prince & Place

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“Prince’s sound is a musical hybrid, in which the history of Minneapolis, its people, and the social forces organizing life there are brought together.”

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The Untold Stories of Wes Studi

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Wes starring in films that have nothing to do with Native American heritage is something we acutely desire: to be allowed to play parts without having to authenticate our realness as Indians.”

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Il Maestro

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 17, 2021October 19, 2022

Martin Scorsese on “content,” the films of Federico Fellini, and the art of cinema.

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Britney Spears Was a New Mom and No One Tried to Help Her

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I’ve never met a woman who did not at some point, in those first early weeks of motherhood, break down.”

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I Will Always Love You: A Dolly Parton Reading List

by Alison Fishburn January 19, 2021October 19, 2022

Happy birthday, Dolly Parton! Here are seven longreads about the American singer-songwriter.

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘We Told You So’: Revisiting the Bleak, Pandemic-Filled World of 12 Monkeys, 25 Years Later

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 18, 2021October 19, 2022

“Gilliam does believe that the end of society may soon be upon us. The question for him is: What shape will the new one take?”

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A Plague of Madness

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 8, 2021October 19, 2022

Terry Gilliam’s 1995 film 12 Monkeys showed us a bleak future, one in which a virus had wiped out most of humankind. Twenty-five years on, the film’s creators revisit their visionary film.

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