Romance
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Somethin’ Your Daddy Never Did: Jeff Nichols’ ‘Mud,’ Love, and Manhood
An FSR/OPS original video essay.~Jeff Nichols’ Mud tells of a lost soul (Matthew McConaughey) returned to the small river community that raised him for the dual…
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‘Break Down’ is a Dark, Absurd, and Elegant End to a Love Gone Sour
Short of the Day Ever laughed and cried at the same time? Breaking up is hard to do. Everybody knows that, there’s a billion songs about it,…
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The Muse Matters: The Love of Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard Onscreen
A new video traces the rise and fall of the French New Wave’s first couple. When Anna Karina made her first film for Jean-Luc Godard, Le…
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When Romantic Comedies Met Nora Ephron
How ‘When Harry Met Sally’ defies as many genre conventions as it embraces.
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‘Kheer’ is a Valentine’s Treat from India
Short of the Day Nanu has some explaining to do… Relationships, like people, age, and as such they also change. A person at 65 is not the…
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The 5 Realest Valentine’s Day Moods and The Movies That Match
Get out of here with your happy, sad, indifferent takes. These are the moods that matter on V-Day. A longstanding myth about Valentine’s Day is that…
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Romance and Science Fiction: A Match Made in the Heavens
A love letter to the greatest mix of movie genres.
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The On-Screen Couples We Believe In
This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating love that works. It’s Valentine’s Day, which means that you’re either in the midst of being reminded how great love is…
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‘Partners’ Depicts the Everyday Doldrums of Love
Short of the Day An interpersonal drama of romantic derisiveness. Whether we like to admit it or not, there’s nothing quite so entertaining as watching someone…