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Where to Begin: Kaneto Shindô and Onibaba
Widely celebrated as the saviour of German Cinema, the German New Wave ponders division, rhetoric...
Papa’s Kino Ist Tot: Reflections on Divide and Loss by the German New Wave
Widely celebrated as the saviour of German Cinema, the German New Wave ponders division, rhetoric...
Lights, iPhone, Action: How smartphone cinematography is democratising filmmaking
On December 4th, the winner of 2018’s Turner Prize was announced. The annual art prize,...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: a tone-deaf exercise in narcissism
The BFI film festival played host to the UK’s first showing of Terry Gilliam’s, (25...
Female protagonists do not a feminist film make: how Lars von Trier let slip his misogyny
In the recent revelations regarding harassment and abuse in the Western film industry, there are...
Leading Lady Parts: Stop giving all the roles to White men
If you have 10 minutes and want to be quietly infuriated by the extreme lack...
‘Bonjour, Paris!’: Maybe that’s why the French hate us
Did you know, if you Google ‘why do we romanticise Paris?’, that the most common...
The Staircase: our obsession with True Crime
Making a Murderer, Evil Genius, Casting Jon Benet, and now The Staircase – why do...
The Proof is in the Promised Land
I have a friend from Canvey Island, who once convinced me that Dame Judi Dench...
Contemporary Silent Films
John Krasinksi’s aptly named The Quiet Place has been described as ‘a silent film’ by...
