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Pinned

Joy Loftus
in
The Junction

“On Discipline”

Set deep in the midst of Amish Country in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania is a curious amusement-park like establishment, known as Camp…

Feb 14, 2021

“On Discipline”

Feb 14, 2021

Pinned

Joy Loftus
in
The Short Place

Lattice

A story

Dec 12, 2020

Lattice

Dec 12, 2020

Joy Loftus

Trump’s Travel Ban: The Question American Leaders have been Avoiding

I wonder if President Obama would have signed into law the Visa Waiver Improvement Program and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act if he had…

Feb 26, 2021

Trump’s Travel Ban: The Question American Leaders have been Avoiding

Feb 26, 2021

Joy Loftus

Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR Dazzles with Brilliant Choreography and Symbolism

During a poetry lesson held between two illicit lovers, John Keats and Fanny Brawne, Keats instructs Fanny: “A poem needs understanding…

Dec 24, 2020

Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR Dazzles with Brilliant Choreography and Symbolism

Dec 24, 2020

Joy Loftus

Review: “Little Fires Everywhere”

A tv miniseries adaptation of Celeste Ng’s second novel, “Little Fires Everywhere” (her first a novel called “Everything I Never Told You”…

Dec 7, 2020

Review: “Little Fires Everywhere”

Dec 7, 2020

Joy Loftus

“Elastic Time”

In 1925 Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic Mrs. Dalloway was published in London, after which the field of literature, and the…

Dec 3, 2020

“Elastic Time”

Dec 3, 2020

Joy Loftus

Divas

Jules was at the hospice with Mrs. Grey, an elderly woman suffering from terminal sarcoma, a rare form of heart cancer. She felt a filial…

Dec 3, 2020

Divas

Dec 3, 2020

Joy Loftus

Wasp Network: An Ambitious Cuban-America Spy Drama starring Edgar Ramirez and Penelope Cruz

Oliver Assayas, the French director who once wrote alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Godard for the Cahiers du Cinema magazine, was…

Jun 27, 2020

Image: https://www.netflix.com/title/81000201

Jun 27, 2020

Joy Loftus

Hollywood Needs to Make More Melodramas

Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma Reaffirms the Power of the Melodrama

Dec 4, 2019

Hollywood Needs to Make More Melodramas

Dec 4, 2019

Joy Loftus

Are the Chinese Film Industry Censors Only About Controlling China, or Hollywood too?

People fled to see Todd Phillips’s Joker, which was released on October 4, to better understand the Batman supervillain apart from his…

Nov 7, 2019

Nov 7, 2019

Joy Loftus

Joy Loftus

I capture emotions, translate them into mental images, and package them into cinematic scenes. I also write fiction, essays, and other things.

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