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8 06, 2019

Fifty Years of Bond Girls and The Male Gaze

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Widely celebrated as the saviour of German Cinema, the German New Wave ponders division, rhetoric and injustice with remarkable care and sensitivity. Here's a very short retrospective to give you a clue of where to start with this fascinating period in film history.

26 02, 2019

Where to Begin: Kaneto Shindô and Onibaba

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Widely celebrated as the saviour of German Cinema, the German New Wave ponders division, rhetoric and injustice with remarkable care and sensitivity. Here's a very short retrospective to give you a clue of where to start with this fascinating period in film history.

22 01, 2019

Papa’s Kino Ist Tot: Reflections on Divide and Loss by the German New Wave

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Widely celebrated as the saviour of German Cinema, the German New Wave ponders division, rhetoric and injustice with remarkable care and sensitivity. Here's a very short retrospective to give you a clue of where to start with this fascinating period in film history.

25 12, 2018

Lights, iPhone, Action: How smartphone cinematography is democratising filmmaking

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On December 4th, the winner of 2018’s Turner Prize was announced. The annual art prize, previously awarded to the likes of Damien Hirst, Wolfgang Tillmans and director Steve McQueen, often invites controversy and this year was certainly no exception. All four of the nominees – three individuals and a collective – were nominated for [...]

4 11, 2018

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: a tone-deaf exercise in narcissism

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The BFI film festival played host to the UK’s first showing of Terry Gilliam’s, (25 years’ late) pet project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The red carpet was rolled out, paparazzi took their place, and fans waited anxiously about the garden; the sycophantic narcissism was getting more meta by the second. Gilliam [...]