When John Magaro was eyeballing acting as a living and soaking up ’70s movies in college, Dustin Hoffman’s career looked awfully inspiring. So when “September 5” came along with the role of real-life TV producer Geoffrey Mason, an instrumental figure in ABC Sports’ groundbreaking spot-news coverage of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics terrorist attack, reading the script gave Magaro a …
Past Lives: This untranslatable Korean word for eternal love has ancient Buddhist roots A24 Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro star in Celine Song's Oscar-nominated film Past Lives, which explores the word inyeon, the ancient concept of fated love. In 2023, Celine Song brought her interpretation of inyeon to life in …
Celine Song’s beautiful debut film, Past Lives, which Slate’s Sam Adams called “2023’s first great movie,” opens on a trio at a bar: an Asian man and an Asian woman talking avidly, and a white man sitting off to the side, evidently the third wheel. It all comes to a head in a remarkable scene between Nora and Arthur in …
