July 2021 - The Magic Lantern

EPISODES

Episode 163 – The Last Picture Show

July 26, 2021

The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971) will break your heart in a million different ways, all of them Texan. As an expatriate from a town very much like this, it hits me where I live. I’ve seen those fights on Main Street between guys who were best friends and will…

EPISODES

Episode 162 – Vagabond

The Magic Lantern

July 12, 2021

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When we first see Mona, she is already dead. In Vagabond (1985), Agnès Varda then sets about to reconstruct the last days and weeks of this young woman’s life, as witnessed and retold through the eyes of others. We learn that none of these people really seemed to know Mona,…