Bearing the Weight of Jane Brox’s ‘Silence’
Solitary confinement; monastic discipline; gender discrimination: In Silence, Jane Brox explores how our circumstances shape our ideals, showing how authority muffles her not so quiet subject.
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Dignity and the Death Penalty: On Borzage’s ‘Moonrise’
In the nearly eight decades since Moonrise‘s release, Borzage’s melodrama-noir-styled meditations on social causality, dignity, and redemption have lost none of their potency.