Tag: Utopia


  • Last year, one hundred and nineteen million Americans became enthralled by true crime podcasts, according to Audiochuck and Edison Research. Our cultural obsession with the brutal acts of others can be almost as curious as the acts themselves. Is the devil in the details, or are we just caught up in the web of intrigue…

  • In 1974, a moment in Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter made our hearts stop as Charlotte Rampling saw Dirk Bogarde at the desk of the Vienna hotel she was staying in. Any audience watching, knowing what the picture was about, remembers it vividly as it sends Rampling’s character, Lucia, into a spiral of trauma. Bogarde’s…