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The Strangler: Paul Vecchiali’s Underseen Queer Arthouse Thriller

Paul Vecchiali’s 1970 film The Strangler defies genre categorization. Not quite a crime thriller, not quite a giallo, not quite a romantic drama, the film follows Émile (Jacques Perrin), a boyish Jack the Ripper figure who serially stalks the streets of Paris at night, strangling sad, lonely women with a white child-sized scarf. Anna (Eva Simonet) has recently dumped her cheating ex-lover, and fearfully believes herself to be the killer’s next target. She offers herself up as bait to the inspect

The Film Stage Show Ep. 519 – Priscilla (with Katarina Docalovich)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! On a new episode, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by special guest Katarina Docalovich to discuss Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, now in theaters.

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Alexander Payne Cozies Up to the Past in the Delightful, Nuanced The Holdovers

Alexander Payne takes us back to school in order to satirize the larger American political landscape in The Holdovers, but his once-acidic tone has undoubtedly taken a shift toward the sincere since newcomer Reese Witherspoon first hit our screens as know-it-all Tracy Flick in Election nearly 25 years ago. Now, with the early 1970s-set holiday drama The Holdovers, his indictment of the American Dream may burn more slowly, but the gut punch Payne packs is no less severe, so long as you aren’t put