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1 week ago | 
metrograph.com | Thora Siemsen
The adage that half of all marriages end in divorce doesn’t quite match current statistics, but there have been times when it came close, at least stateside (recent estimates predict 41 percent of first marriages in the U.S. will end in divorce).
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1 month ago | 
i-d.co | Thora Siemsen
This story appears in i-D 374, The Unknown Issue. written by THORA SIEMSENphotography AIDAN ZAMIRIstyling CLARE BYRNEcasting director JENNIFER VENDITTIEnza Khoury is looking back on life. She’s 18 now, and she’ll graduate this spring from her public high school in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a storybook village with approximately 4,000 residents just east of Cleveland. Named after the waterfalls along the Chagrin River that runs through town, it’s a picturesque place to live.
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2 months ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Thora Siemsen |Jake Nevins
Film is a fitting medium with which to finally tell the story of Q Lazzarus, the cinephile’s idea of a rockstar. In 1987, Diane Luckey, as Q was born, was working as a musician and taxi driver in downtown New York when acclaimed American director Jonathan Demme climbed into her cab. He heard her working on a melody from the front seat and passed along his card.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
interviewmagazine.com | Thora Siemsen |Jake Nevins
Chris Moukarbel’s life comprises an unexpected series of segments: born in Connecticut to Lebanese immigrants, he was a D.C. punk kid who joined the U.S. Army at seventeen, then left to come out and bartend at a popular gay bar, earning enough to buy a house at 24. This man does what he wants. As a student at Yale’s MFA program in sculpture in the mid-aughts, what he wanted was to get on an international stage by baiting Paramount into a lawsuit.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Thora Siemsen |Vinson Cunningham
Don’t forget to select your favorite films! All More it’s mitchum month on tcm aunt thora mode. the kids liked this 69...
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
metrograph.com | Thora Siemsen |Nick Pinkerton |Gabriel Jandali Appel |Anna Schechtman
As the year winds to a close, we’ve had a chance to reflect proudly on the work we’ve been publishing in the Metrograph Journal. Below, you’ll find a selection of 15 of the Journal’s most popular pieces of the year for you to visit or revisit—interviews with filmmakers, actor profiles, entries in some of our ongoing columns, and essays on films we love. We want to thank all of our wonderful Journal contributors and readers, and look forward to sharing more great writing with you in 2024.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
interviewmagazine.com | Thora Siemsen |Jake Nevins
In August, I met the director Saeed Taji Farouky at the Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, Colorado. He was the event’s headliner with his latest film, A Thousand Fires, an entrancing study of a Burmese family working in their unregulated oil field. Getting to see his work in a movie theater, and witnessing the subsequent conversation, was my favorite filmgoing experience of 2023.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
4columns.org | Thora Siemsen
Orlando, My Political Biography Thora Siemsen Paul B. Preciado mixes Woolf’s gender-bending novel with the personal stories of a trans and nonbinary cast to moving and inventive effect. Ruben Rizza (right) as Orlando in Orlando, My Political Biography. Courtesy Film Forum. Orlando, My Political Biography, directed by Paul B.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
latimes.com | Haley Mlotek |Thora Siemsen
This story is part of “Discourse,” a fresh look at the dire state of the bicoastal conversation — free from corniness and cliches. Check out the whole issue — the “New York” issue, if you’re reading between the lines — here. Read the second part of “Never left” here. I’m writing to you from Boulder, Colo., where I’m house sitting for the next few weeks. Had dinner with friends, whom I’m also hiking with tomorrow morning up to Lake Dorothy, about an hour drive from Boulder.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
metrograph.com | Thora Siemsen
