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Festival Roundup | IFF Boston 2024

Getting Lost Was Only The Half Of It

Isolation, Obsession, and Frankenstein: Why I’m a Frankensnob

SEX • MENTAL HEALTH • LOSS • IDENTITY • FAMILY • GROWTH

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Rebecca Radillo

Dec 1, 20239 min read

Isolation, Obsession, and Frankenstein: Why I’m a Frankensnob

Rebecca Radillo examines her love for Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' and the spectrum of its many film adaptations.

How Horror Movies Changed My Relationship With Grief

Alejandra Velazquez

Nov 10, 20236 min read

How Horror Movies Changed My Relationship With Grief

Alejandra Velazquez examines her relationship to horror movies like The Conjuring, and how it changed her understanding of grief.

A Love Letter to The Conjuring: Finding Representation in the Strangest Places

Rebecca Radillo

Oct 27, 20238 min read

A Love Letter to The Conjuring: Finding Representation in the Strangest Places

Rebecca Radillo examines the unconventional faith-based representation in the Conjuring franchise.

Lyvie Scott

Oct 13, 202311 min read

Bliss on the Big Screen

Iris editor Lyvie Scott talks to friends and fellow critics about the films that first defined pleasure for them.

You Create Intricate Rituals: The Homoerotic Action Movie

Rebecca Radillo

Jun 30, 202311 min read

You Create Intricate Rituals: The Homoerotic Action Movie

Rebecca unpacks themes of homoeroticism in action films, from the more obvious classics to unsuspecting gems.

Smart People on Ice: A Case for Setting Coming-of-Age Films in College

Maggie Boccella

Apr 14, 20238 min read

Smart People on Ice: A Case for Setting Coming-of-Age Films in College

Maggie unpacks her favorite college-set coming-of-age films.

What Maketh a Shakespearean Film Adaptation of Great Distinction

Rebecca Radillo

Mar 24, 20239 min read

What Maketh a Shakespearean Film Adaptation of Great Distinction

Rebecca Radillo lists the best film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, both the well-known and obscure.

Lyvie Scott

Mar 10, 202316 min read

Writers on Writers: Lyvie Scott & Rebecca Radillo

Lyvie Scott and Rebecca Radillo sit down to discuss their careers as writers, finding tragedy in action, and the future of film criticism.

Growing Up With The Nightmare Before Christmas

Rebecca Radillo

Dec 23, 20225 min read

Growing Up With The Nightmare Before Christmas

Rebecca looks back on Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the profound message she's taken from the film.

Don’t Try to Understand it. Feel it: Love, the Void, and Christopher Nolan

Rebecca Radillo

Nov 26, 202213 min read

Don’t Try to Understand it. Feel it: Love, the Void, and Christopher Nolan

Rebecca Radillo explores the work of Christopher Nolan, and the statements that Interstellar, Inception and Tenet all make about love.

Bones and All Review: The Delicate and Grotesque Collide in Luca Guadagnino's Latest

Lyvie Scott

Nov 14, 20224 min read

Bones and All Review: The Delicate and Grotesque Collide in Luca Guadagnino's Latest

Lyvie Scott reviews Luca Guadagnino's cannibal road-trip romance Bones and All at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.

A Brief Investigation of My Favorite Comfort Movies

Rebecca Radillo

Oct 7, 20226 min read

A Brief Investigation of My Favorite Comfort Movies

Rebecca Radillo explores the similarities and differences between the films that have given her the most comfort over the years.

Criminal Bodies: Life With Disabilities is the Crime of the Future

Rebecca Radillo

Aug 19, 20229 min read

Criminal Bodies: Life With Disabilities is the Crime of the Future

Rebecca Radillo explores the parallels between David Cronenberg's world in "Crimes of the Future" and our own.

Our Bodies On-Screen: The Criminalization of Choice

Lauryn Jackson

Aug 19, 20225 min read

Our Bodies On-Screen: The Criminalization of Choice

Lauryn Jackson analyzes two recent films, both of which paint an incredibly timely picture about our right to choose.

Take My Breath Away, Top Gun Really IS That Homoerotic

Rebecca Radillo

Jul 29, 20228 min read

Take My Breath Away, Top Gun Really IS That Homoerotic

Rebecca Radillo explores what exactly makes "Top Gun" — and its successor, "Maverick" — so incredible: the male-male relationships.

"I wish I knew how to quit you": Finding Joy in Tragic Gays

Rebecca Radillo

Jun 17, 20229 min read

"I wish I knew how to quit you": Finding Joy in Tragic Gays

Rebecca Radillo breaks down her love for tragic gay couples in film — in spite of the harmful effects of the "bury your gays" trope.

Lyvie Scott

Jun 3, 202215 min read

Filmmaker Spot - Quint Scott

Lyvie Scott sits down with filmmaker Quint Scott to discuss Pride, diversity, and his future in film.

Inglourious Feminists: Tarantino and the Weight of Feminist Guilt

Rebecca Radillo

May 27, 20227 min read

Inglourious Feminists: Tarantino and the Weight of Feminist Guilt

Rebecca Radillo weighs her relationship to feminism against the less-than-feminist films of Quentin Tarantino.

Logan-Ashley Kisner

May 20, 20227 min read

can't you see it's me?

Logan-Ashley Kisner compares the struggle between masculinity and femininity to the world of the Swedish horror film "Girls Lost."

Lyvie Scott

May 13, 20229 min read

Momcore

Lyvie Scott teams up with her mother, Vanessa, to discuss the female-led films that left the biggest impressions on them growing up.

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