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Blonde Is Marilyn Monroe Abased All Over Again

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, Andrew Dominik’s film Blonde ignores the assertive and hardworking real-life Marilyn Monroe and instead gives us a lurid tale of perpetual victimization.

Jean-Luc Godard Was Cinema’s North Star

Richard Brody The New Yorker
The French director did more than transform the aesthetic and the practice of filmmaking—he turned the cinema into the central art form of his time.