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Looking for Truth: Elia Kazan’s East of Eden and post-Korean War America
January 2022, Senses of Cinema
With its appearance of a single continuous take, 1917 had been hailed as a technical triumph of visual storytelling. But I could remember another film set in that same year, one that instead of burnishing a fantasy used visual storytelling to raise questions about the director’s country and war.
Mirror, mirror
July 2021, Blue Door Press
The glamorous villa she’s rented for a family holiday is all Serena hoped for. Why then does she find herself beset by figures from the past?