Author Archives: classiq

18 November 2025

The details were never decorative; they served the characters’ inner life: Interview with “After the Hunt” production designer Stefano Baisi

”After the Hunt”, 2025, directed by Luca Guadagnino. Amazon Studios| MGM   After a short incursion into the daily schedule of college philosophy professor Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts), we get comfortably acquainted with her at a dinner party at Alma … Read More →

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7 November 2025

“Dark Passage”, Bogie and Bacall’s poetic dreamscape where everything becomes possible

  Bogie is on the run, having just escaped prison after he was framed for the murder of his wife, and Bacall comes to his rescue, her belief in his innocence rooted in her own family history. But for the … Read More →

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20 October 2025

Read instead…in print #39: Lubitsch Can’t Wait

  They don’t make comedies like they used to. A cliché? Maybe. But it also just happens to be the plain truth. And they have never made comedies like Ernst Lubitsch did. His comedies make us laugh by not showing, … Read More →

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12 October 2025

October Newsletter: River of Hills, Bread of Angels, and Desperate Literature

    Photos: Classiq Journal     ”I watched a teenager at the bookstore counter ask if they still sold a novel that had been banned at her school. The clerk nodded. “We keep a few in the back.” She … Read More →

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30 September 2025

“Observation is everything to me”: In conversation with artist Lauren Tamaki

    Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki     Seen and Unseen, by Elizabeth Partridge, explores a grave moment in world history, the Japanese American incarceration as captured by three photographers, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams, beautifully balancing their … Read More →

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