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Scott Teems

A collection of 2 posts
The Quarry: murder, scripture, and Southern Gothic style
Film Reviews

The Quarry: murder, scripture, and Southern Gothic style

Set in a world rich with echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy, The Quarry's story of a fake preacher and a violent sheriff raises hard questions about the possibility of redemption in a world as ruined as this one.
20 Jul 2020 9 min read
Life in the Dark
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Life in the Dark

I opened the new film issue of Image today, which was edited by cinephile Gareth Higgins and Rectify writer/director Scott Teems, and I was immediately caught up in a complicated conflict regarding one of my favorite filmmakers: Robert Bresson. In the essay called "Necessary Images," Teems writes,
17 Jul 2017 2 min read
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