‘I Don’t Love You Anymore’: A Goodbye
Marek’s uncareful camera is the main vessel for a cinematic conversation around consent.
Joshua Polanski (’20) is a freelance film and culture writer who writes regularly for the Boston Hassle and has contributed to the Bay Area Reporter, In Review Online, and Off Screen amongst other places. His interests include the technical elements of filmmaking and exhibition, slow and digital cinemas, cinematic sexuality, as well as Eastern and Northern European, East Asian, and Middle Eastern film.
by Joshua Polanski | Jan 24, 2024 | 0 comments
Marek’s uncareful camera is the main vessel for a cinematic conversation around consent.
by Joshua Polanski | Dec 24, 2023 | 0 comments
The Christmas of my youth is dead. That’s just adulthood, I suppose.
by Joshua Polanski | Nov 24, 2023 | 0 comments
It is no less than an incarnation of the badges of history Estonia wears into the present, a memento of the past and a dream of a techno-future.
by Joshua Polanski | Oct 24, 2023 | 0 comments
If we continue as is, and perhaps even if we don’t, mass species extinction will continue accelerating.
by Joshua Polanski | Sep 24, 2023 | 0 comments
It almost feels incompatibly bourgeois.
by Joshua Polanski | Aug 24, 2023 | 1 comment
YouTube democratized intellectual pursuits, complicated ideas, and real academic debates.
by Joshua Polanski | Jul 24, 2023 | 0 comments
If you find yourself unable to enjoy a prime-era Jackie Chan action flick, I’m convinced you just don’t like movies as an artform.
by Joshua Polanski | Jun 24, 2023 | 0 comments
There is no way around this: I just don’t like Boston cream donuts.
by Joshua Polanski | May 24, 2023 | 1 comment
Musk’s lousy management of Twitter has made visible, at least to me, the appeal of the app in the first place.
by Joshua Polanski | Mar 24, 2023 | 0 comments
The Tower of Babel is one of our oldest dystopias.
by Joshua Polanski | Feb 24, 2023 | 0 comments
I never found out if the kid’s shenanigans were purposeful.
by Joshua Polanski | Jan 24, 2023 | 0 comments
You’ll find mid-budget Dad-tier sci-fi films you forgot about, and you’ll come across Chinese war movies that you’ve never heard of; there’s something for everyone here.
by Joshua Polanski | Dec 24, 2022 | 0 comments
There’s something about Waldorf, Maryland that just screams “mundane!”
by Joshua Polanski | Nov 24, 2022 | 1 comment
Dua Lipa is one of the most erotic artists in the pop-music industry. Let me explain.
by Joshua Polanski | Oct 24, 2022 | 0 comments
The first season, while still fresh off the press, is right up there with the best of Thrones.
by Joshua Polanski | Sep 24, 2022 | 3 comments
The trap I placed committed a horrible violence on such a precious creature.
by Joshua Polanski | Aug 24, 2022 | 0 comments
Something will always need repaired, reformed, repented of, or redeemed.
by Joshua Polanski | Jul 24, 2022 | 0 comments
We live in a world so flooded by “entertainments” that the “novels” are drowning.
by Joshua Polanski | Jun 24, 2022 | 0 comments
Lesson learned: don’t castrate yourself for God or all of your friends might find out.
by Joshua Polanski | May 24, 2022 | 3 comments
The Event creates a new subject, a new person.
by Joshua Polanski | Apr 24, 2022 | 5 comments
Twitter is a cruel place where blatant vengeance rather than restoration is the norm for public sins.
by Joshua Polanski | Mar 24, 2022 | 1 comment
What can you know about me through my unread books?
by Joshua Polanski | Feb 24, 2022 | 2 comments
I distinctly remember drinking an entire pot one night.
by Joshua Polanski | Jan 24, 2022 | 2 comments
Doubt and faith, though mutually contradictory, can be gently held together.
by Joshua Polanski | Dec 24, 2021 | 1 comment
The world I knew was only one of the worlds contained within my little globe.
by Joshua Polanski | Nov 24, 2021 | 0 comments
The Man From Nowhere is the kind of movie that can make your anxiety nearly incarnate.
by Joshua Polanski | Oct 24, 2021 | 0 comments
Apparently, the past was attractive.
by Joshua Polanski | Sep 24, 2021 | 1 comment
“I find solace in letting things go, letting things be silly and not perfect. “
by Joshua Polanski | Aug 24, 2021 | 0 comments
We are doomed and we know it.