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Makoto Shinkai at Weathering With You screening

Love and Fate: The Work of Makoto Shinkai

In late 2021, Japanese animated filmmaker Makoto Shinkai announced his upcoming Suzume No Tojimari. In English, “Suzume Locking Up the Doors” is slated to be released in Japan in Fall 2022. The doors that the title alludes to are magical doors appearing spontaneously throughout the world, which the heroine, Suzume, must close, with the aid of …

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Pondering Our Fates for Fun: Generation Z’s Neo Preppies

My mother was, and very much is, a preppy. In her Reagan-era adolescence, the United States was in an aspirational mode, but also fascinated with a certain ‘Old Money’ traditionalism. Growing up in rural Virginia, she was captivated by an idealized vision of the Upper East Coast: an aged Katharine Hepburn in a pair of …

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