The CUFP Digest

Isaac Daly

Feb 28, 20224 min read

A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth uses confusion as an asset. If Shakespeare was resurrected in 2022, he would have to admit he had done...

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Fergus Campbell

Feb 19, 20224 min read

Kristen, Kirsten, and patient work

Last Tuesday, Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst, 20 and 30 years into their acting careers, respectively, were nominated for their first...

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Isaac Daly

Jan 25, 20225 min read

Still Crazy After All These Years: Buster Keaton’s fever-dream still astounds

Film Forum is not your typical movie theater. As AMC, Regal and other chains become ever more reliant on blockbuster titles, independent...

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Indira Ramgolam

Jan 18, 20224 min read

More Beast than Beauty: How “Belle” Modernizes “Beauty and the Beast”

Belle (2021, dir. Mamoru Hosoda) is a beautiful and complex retelling of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. At its most...

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Majorca Bateman-Coe

Dec 29, 20213 min read

"The Snapper"

The Snapper is a 1993 Irish television film directed by Stephen Frears and tells the story of Sharon Curley, an alcoholic 20-year-old who...

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