Romance Week: Valentine's Day Double Feature–Romance, obsession, and the uncanny in MULHOLLAND DR. & THE BEAST

February 13, 2025 by Moviejawn Account in features, lindsey romain

by Lindsey Romain, Staff Writer
Love as nightmare is a theme in both David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (2000) and Bertrand Bonnello’s The Beast (2024), an intriguing Valentine’s Day double feature idea for those seeking stories that shed the vanity of love and cut to the bone-singed gristle.

Romance Week: Love in Bloom(sday)– BEFORE SUNRISE, Ulysses, and the poetry of wandering

February 11, 2025 by Moviejawn Account in features, lindsey romain, staff pick

by Lindsey Romain, Staff Writer
A present so defined by disruption and decay—politically, ecologically, communally—that the concept of chance meetings and hope and romantic bids feel by contrast unimportant. But oh how contrary—how necessary those things are now more than ever.