Borders and FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: A Women’s+ Canon Article by Persia
If we’re going to talk about the women’s canon, and if we’re going to talk…
No One Left to Listen: Persia on Family and Loss in THERE WILL BE BLOOD
There Will Be Blood starts with oil and ends in — you guessed it —…
Year of the Month: Persia on “Blue Moon”
Once upon a time, I was one of Those Kids. The ones who wore their…
Year of the Month: Persia on ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
“You should have caught us in better times. We were purists then.” Has any playwright…
Year of the Month: Persia on THE SECRET OF NIMH
There are many movies that bear revisiting as your life circumstances change. A movie watched…
Not Quite Normal: Persia on The Cracked Brilliance of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Was there, will there ever be, a man better at going from quiet neurosis to…
Year of the Month: Persia on JAMAICA INN
“Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica anymore. That’s all I know. In the old days…
Year of the Month: Persia on Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa taught me about texture. I’d watched plenty of black-and-white movies before and…
My Masterpiece: Persia on Inglourious Basterds
1. All y’all will get me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of…
YEAR OF THE MONTH: Persia on On the Town
On the Town is a light confection of a musical movie, without much plot or…