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The Twelve Best Films of 2012

The Twelve Best Films of 2012

Hydra Magazine's Twelve Best Films of 2012, featuring films from the Philippines, UK, USA, France, South Korea, Iran, Portugal, Norway, and Romania.

| January 5, 2013 | No Comments »

“Owners of their Faces”: Faciality and The Master

“Owners of their Faces”: Faciality and The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" has more to do with faciality and Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 than it does with Dianetics.

| December 14, 2012 | No Comments »

Trauma, Love, and Time Travel

Trauma, Love, and Time Travel

Tracing the temporality of love through Bruce Willis sci-fi films, '12 Monkeys' and 'Looper', and at the heart of it all, 'La Jetée.'

| October 9, 2012 | No Comments »

A Pentagram for Conjuring Hollis Frampton

A Pentagram for Conjuring Hollis Frampton

Notes taken on the occasion of watching the Criterion Collection's release of "A Hollis Frampton Odyssey"

| September 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Imagining America’s End: A Tale of Two Cities

Imagining America’s End: A Tale of Two Cities

Encountering death in Benh Zeitlin's 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises.'

| August 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

On the Erotics of Evil

On the Erotics of Evil

Why Andrzej Zulawski's film from 1981 "Possession" sexualizes a woman's relation with a monster.

| April 12, 2012 | No Comments »

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part Two)

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part Two)

Part Two of Hydra Magazine's 20 Best Films of 2011.

| December 30, 2011 | No Comments »

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part One)

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part One)

Part One of Hydra Magazine's 20 Best Films of 2011.

| December 27, 2011 | No Comments »

Four Paragraphs on Jean Vigo

Four Paragraphs on Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo died at the age of 29. He made a total of four films. Yet his myth sails on.

| November 25, 2011 | No Comments »

The Bare Life of the Turin Horse

The Bare Life of the Turin Horse

From Nietzsche's silence to the bare life of the body: Bela Tarr's final opus is a film of devastating nakedness.

| November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »