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Documentary ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'What Happened, Miss Simone?' (2015) by Liz Garbus

Vibe: "What Happened, Miss Simone?" is a somewhat cookie-cutter documentary about a fascinating, complicated person with immense talent and passion. Comprised mainly of performance footage, snippets from Nina Simone's diary, primary interviews, and a few unnecessary childhood recreations, it's all standard music documentary fare,
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Interview ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

Interview with the 'Con Spirito' (2018) Crew

When Con Spirito started following me on Instagram, I thought, "Oh, damn... this better be a film about Elizabeth Bishop." Luckily, I was right, and I immediately messaged the creators to see if we could set up an interview. I studied English at a small liberal arts school,
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TV ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 16: There's the Rub

Directing and writing credits: Directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino, written by Sheila R. Lawrence. ASP has actually only directed fifteen episodes of the original "Gilmore Girls," which kind of surprises me. In a 2013 Collider interview about "Bunheads," ASP was asked how she decides which episodes to
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TV ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 15: Lost and Found

Directing and writing credits: Directed by Gail Mancuso, written by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Mancuso also directed "Red Light on the Wedding Night" and I wrote a little bit about her career in that post. In Sherman-Palladino news, here's a good article about her and "The Marvelous
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TV ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 14: It Should've Been Lorelai

Directing and writing credits: Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, written by Daniel Palladino. Linka Glatter is great and has directed many awesome shows and movies, including these previous "Gilmore Girls" episodes: * "Pilot" (1.1) - the one where we meet those adorable Gilmore Girls for the
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Film ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Love & Basketball' (2000) by Gina Prince-Bythewood

Vibe: Smart, funny, and beautifully shot, "Love & Basketball" has a top spot in my romantic comedy hall of fame. It's different from every other romcom out there, but I do think it loosely fits into the genre even though it subverts it in many ways.
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TV ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 13: A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Directing and writing credits: Directed by Robert Berlinger, written by Amy Sherman-Palladino. This is Berlinger's first episode of "Gilmore Girls," and he'll go on to direct two others in Season 6: "Always a Godmother, Never a God" and "Twenty-One is the
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TV ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 12: Richard in Stars Hollow

Directing and writing credits: Directed by Steve Gomer, written by Frank Lombardi. Both of these guys are "GG" one-and-dones. Notable lines on Gomer's resume include episodes of "Veronica Mars" and "Joan of Arcadia." Did anyone else used to watch the latter show
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Film ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.' (1993) by Leslie Harris

Vibe: Super 90s and full of attitude. "Just Another Girl on the I.R.T." is a coming-of-age story in the same vein as "Clueless" (Heckerling, 1995), "The Edge of Seventeen" (Fremon Craig, 2016), and "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" (Heller,
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TV ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 11: Secrets and Loans

Directing and writing credits: Directed by Nicole Holofcener, written by Linda Loiselle Guzik. It's such a bummer to me that this is the episode they gave Holofcener. She's a talented, capable director, and some of that certainly shines through in "Secrets and Loans," but
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TV ⸱ Meg Ringler

'Gilmore Girls' Season 2, Episode 10: The Bracebridge Dinner

Directing and writing credits: This episode was directed by Chris Long, who has directed a number of my favorite "GG" episodes, including "A Tale of Poes and Fire" and "Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospel." Daniel Palladino wrote this episode, so
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Film ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'Morvern Callar' (2002) by Lynne Ramsay

Vibe: Bleak, but not depressing. Lynne Ramsay is one of those directors that somehow always manages to find beauty where it doesn't seem to exist. Each frame of this film is gorgeously composed with a level of detail that is all too rare. Ramsay's background in
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