Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Duel of the Suspiras
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Meg Elison reviews the 1977 and 2018 iterations of Suspiria, two films that tell the same story of dance and witchcraft in diametrically opposed ways.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Practical Magic
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Meg Elison reviews a film that she argues is tonally dissonant, incoherent, and rambling – and also perfect. It’s 1998’s “Practical Magic,” starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, in today’s Classics of Pagan Cinema!
Arts & Culture
Calamities in Pagan Cinema: “The Covenant” (2006)
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“The Covenant” seemed like it was made to be the boys’ own answer to “The Craft.” But the film is too caught up in its own broken masculinity to begin to offer a coherent vision of magic – much less a coherent film.