Oscars 2025: Gaslighting Edition
the fourth annual installment of an ancient COPY tradition: Auveen’s Oscars predictions.
By Auveen Dezgaran
We Want to Be Opposite
What happens when we meet our more perfect double?
By Philip Kenner
“Every Woman Adores a Fascist”
No, but masochism is prevalent in two recent popular film releases. Why?
By Myka Greene
In Defense of “Gaffe Track Films”
Explore a kind of freedom rarely captured in other movies.
By Mallory Merlo
Short Cut
That ink-black pixie cut is what she wanted the whole time; all she wanted was to change.
by Davis Dunham
Sacrificial Lambs and Bloody Virgin Marys
Trends in Catholic horror and the unholy war against reproductive rights in America
By Myka Greene
Oscars 2024: Predictions
Who will win & the Adam Lambert Effect
Auveen Dezgaran
WWFD (What Would Felicity Do?
Lessons from Felicity and the red-hot heart on her sleeve.
By Lily Crandall
52 Films: Take One
I’m reminded that a movie can be almost anything, and I feel like all the filmmakers are old friends.
By Naava Guaraca
Some Ideas for a Girls Reboot Season
Because we aren’t getting any younger.
By Brooke Metayer
2023 Favorites: Film + TV
Past Lives takes the lead in a landmark year for hopeless romantics.
By The Copy Team
Our Thoughts On: Saltburn
If Emerald Fennell can do one thing, it’s make a movie that you can’t stop talking about. Back for her sophomore feature, the Copy team and contributors share their thoughts on Saltburn.
By The Copy Team
Putting Women Back in the House
How women reclaim and reject domestic spaces in film.
By Myka Greene
I Want to Fight Jesse Eisenberg
When I sit back Nicole Kidman-style in a movie theater and see the giant likenesses of the Jesse Eisenbergs of the world, I see reflections of my own past mistakes.
By Claire Tumey
Review: Mechanical Bulls
The film is a welcome addition to the familiar territory of the post-college canon.
By Natalie Duerr
The Darkness and the Light
Mary Gaitskill introduces F.W. Murnau’s 1926 horror film Faust at Light Industry.
By Fern Paltrow
PREMIERING ON COPY:
A Biblical Angel, an Emotional Hangover
By Brooke Metayer
Alex Bush and Laura Galindo write poetry in black and white for the “Hangover” music video.
PREMIERING ON COPY:
The Cult Member from the Ocean and the Clown on the Beach: Sean David Bradley’s “Dog Water”
By Lizzie Racklin
“Dog Water” captures the sense that we’re all prone to the same very human tendency toward absolute faith.
WOO, WOO, WOO: I Am Synclaire
By Maria D. Smith
I learned that to be Synclaire is to exceed in spectacle and entertainment, but never to be taken seriously. And thus created my subconscious fear.
An Ode to Background Characters
By Natalie Duerr
Bringing “background character energy” into 2023
David’s Rage
By Kristian Burt
With the East Village’s 1980s fight against AIDS Depicted in the film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, it is important to reflect on a pioneering figure: David Wojnarowicz.
I Am Such A Carrie
By Sarah Gallegos
As I finished rewatching the series, I couldn’t help but wonder if I would one day miss this version of myself—33, tenacious, imperfect, vulnerable.
It Isn’t True Until It Ends
By Davis Dunham
Chaos and peace can coexist when there’s no end in sight, but the pressure to rush off to one makes the two enemies.
Damien Chazelle Is in His Reputation Era
By Brooke Metayer
“Oh, I’m sorry, the old Damien can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ‘cause he’s dead.”
COPY’s Favorites of 2022: Film & TV
By The Copy Team
Death in Our Hands
By Natalie Duerr
Making sense of death isn’t a burden that anyone carries alone. Discussing it might actually make it feel more bearable.
Our Thoughts On: AFI’s Top 100
By The Film Team
The “Great” Films We’re For And Against
What We’re Watching: Emotionally Numbing Television
By The Film Team
TV for when we’re tired of feeling our feelings.
The Unlikeable Fuckups of Edy Modica
By Lizzie Racklin
Nicole shows the frustration and bitterness that can come out of being left on the margins.
“2 Years” Music Video
By Brooke Metayer
Alex Bush and Mia Pak on collaboration , the catharsis of music videos, and invisible strings.
Translating The Yellow Wallpaper to Modern-Day Horror
By Natalie Duerr
J. Kiernan O’Brien treads familiar territory—but a notably different landscape—in her adaptation.
Stopping Time with Hiroshi Yoshimura
By Miguel de Laveaga
What does it mean to let time slip away? How do I unlearn all the ways that this feels so wrong?
I Will Be a Memory
by Lizzie Racklin
I often feel a dissonance between who I am and who I was. Isn’t it frustrating To not relate to yourself?
Of Hollywod and Men
by Natalie Duerr
Another film examines the horrors of being a woman, yet Hollywood is as unaware as ever.
Film Review: Petit Maman
Harish Krishnamoorthy
Céline Sciamma’s latest film feels like a palliative—a short, cozy breath of French air.
Our Thoughts On: Peeing During A Movie
by The Film Team
Do you??!?!
Emerson Rosenthal Has A Lot of Ideas
by Lizzie Racklin
It makes sense that the mind that has generated more than 2,500 ideas in the last four years loves movies that are actually “a hundred different movies in one.”
What We’re Watching: In Flight
by The Film Team
Pick something you would never watch normally, because in-flight entertainment is an experience of its own.
Sofia Coppola: Forever Young Review
by Natalie Duerr
Author Hannah Strong imbues personal experience into a critical survey of a filmmaker known to do the same.
A Fairytale Breakup
by Brooke Metayer
If you’re gonna get dumped, you might as well make it interesting.
ARCHIVE
Film Review: After Yang
Our Thoughts On: All My Friends Hate Me
2022 Oscars Predictions
What We’re Watching: Coming of Age
Euphoria: A Reckoning
Would the Euphoria Teens Survive Yellowjackets?
What Would Avalon Fast Do?
Smithereens: The Anti Rom Com
52 Films Project: Making Art Post College & Mid Pandemic
Our Thoughts On: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ideas From My Rejected A24 Internship Application
What We’re Watching: Documentaries
Our Thoughts On: Pen15 Finale
2021 Fim Recaps
Prestige Mini Series Pitches
I Wasn’t Expecting Death
Our Thoughts On: The French Dispatch
Artist Spotlight: Polina Buchak
Free Characters For Your Thanksgiving Dramedy
You’re Missing the Point: Squid Game
Our Thoughts On: Succession Season 3 Premiere
Film Review: The Worst Person in The World
I Can’t Stop Thinking About How Julia Roberts Plays Her Own Look Alike in Ocean’s 12
Thesis Diary Kate Kim
Artist Spotlight: John Valle
Film Review: Baby Annette
What We’re Watching: Emmy’s Edition
Film Review: to the girl that looks like me
Fashion In 3 Films
Filmmaker Spotlight: Martin Matar
Our Thoughts On: Zola
What Are You Watching Post Vax?
“I Confuse Us”: An Interview