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Articles tagged "kimberly peirce" Film ReviewStop-Lossby Cynthia Fuchs[28.Mar.08] :. In Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, Stop-Loss focuses on unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community recalling Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.  News‘Boys Don’t Cry’ director changes course with Iraq War drama ‘Stop-Loss’by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][24.Mar.08] :. There wasn’t much on director Kimberly Peirce’s resume to suggest she would be the ideal filmmaker to take a shot at making an Iraq War drama. But something about 9-11 moved the director...  Film ReviewBoys Don’t Cry (1999)by Cynthia FuchsAs the charismatic protagonist in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, Brandon embodies the ongoing dilemma of masculine identity. This dilemma is exacerbated by the fact that, when you see him riding that pickup truck, some fifteen minutes into the film, you already know that 18-year-old Brandon's efforts to act like a boy are complicated by the fact that he is, biologically speaking, a girl, born Teena Brandon. |
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