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Le Beau Serge in New York
Claude Chabrol 1959, sur la plage de la Nouvelle Vague
Feb 7 • Lux Cross
The 39 Steps
Alfred Hitchcock, 1935
Feb 4 • Lux Cross

January 2026

The Speed of Meaning
The Phoenician Scheme and The Women: A defense of rapid-fire art
Jan 3 • Lux Cross

December 2025

Coda: Wintering
Home (and hiding) for the Holidays
Dec 20, 2025 • Lux Cross
Throwing Voices
Creative control in Woody Allen's Zelig and Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein
Dec 6, 2025 • Lux Cross

November 2025

Sunday Coffee
Deleted scenes from Bodacious: Making something of yourself in The Hobbit and Pumping Iron
Nov 23, 2025 • Lux Cross
Bodacious
Making something of yourself in The Hobbit and Pumping Iron
Nov 16, 2025 • Lux Cross
Sunday Coffee
Deleted scenes from All the Feels: Post-sync in Spike Jonze's Her
Nov 9, 2025 • Lux Cross
All The Feels
How Spike Jonze and M. Night Shyamalan make us believe in what we see—and feel what can’t be seen.
Nov 1, 2025 • Lux Cross

October 2025

Scale Models
This little replication of life: Synecdoche, New York & Guest of Cindy Sherman
Oct 18, 2025 • Lux Cross
Sunday Coffee
Deleted scenes from this week's column, "Fight Club"
Oct 5, 2025 • Lux Cross
Fight Club
In Lady Bird and Clouds of Sils Maria, the actors make their characters perfectly clear
Oct 4, 2025 • Lux Cross
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