From The Hollywood Reporter · Mia Galuppo · · 1m 10s
A summer at the magazine that time forgot
Alexandra Pechman's debut drops us into 2011 New York, when Gawker ruled, Twitter was fun, and print still mattered.
In brief
Alexandra Pechman's debut drops us into 2011 New York, when Gawker ruled, Twitter was fun, and print still mattered. Print's last good moment is now period-piece material, and the ambition inside those offices is what makes it worth filming. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
2011 New York, on film
Gawker was a juggernaut, Twitter was ascendant and actually fun, and print media was hanging on by its fingernails but still mattered. That narrow window is the setting.
“print media, while hanging on by its fingernails, mattered”
Pechman's first feature
Alexandra Pechman makes her directorial debut with Magazine, catching that moment in both its awkwardness and its glory.
Premiering at TIFF
The film bows Sept. 11 in the Toronto International Film Festival's Discovery section, the slot built for first-time directors.
An intern and a poet
Lily McInerny plays an eager intern and aspiring poet spending a summer at a literary quarterly called Platen.
Aspirational and pretentious
Platen is equal parts of both, a place organized around cultish literary figures and the ambitions they attract.
“equal parts aspirational and pretentious”
Romances and friendships
She stumbles through ill-fated romances and charming friendships while learning to read the personalities running the place.
At a glance
Print's last good moment is now period-piece material, and the ambition inside those offices is what makes it worth filming.
