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.
In the recent revelations regarding harassment and abuse in the Western film industry, there are two voices holding undercurrent. One which speaks of “surprise” at the events, bordering on all-out disbelief. Then there’s the other which says, “Well, duh - it’s a capitalist, male-dominated industry. Of course these things are happening.” One figure who [...]
Did you know, if you Google ‘why do we romanticise Paris?’, that the most common answer is ‘because you haven’t been there’ (I assume that response is given with a classically chic Parisian eye-roll of disdain). Is it really our fault, though? Can we be blamed for thinking that that small European city could [...]
Making a Murderer, Evil Genius, Casting Jon Benet, and now The Staircase – why do we love watching violent, terrible crimes unfold before our eyes while we’re safe in our living rooms? The 2004 French miniseries has just been released across Netflix and we can’t get enough; these sixty minute glimpses into the 2001 [...]
John Krasinksi’s aptly named The Quiet Place has been described as ‘a silent film’ by his co-star and wife Emily Blunt. In fact, the film has little more than ninety lines of dialogue throughout. Silence in film moves the emphasis of the storytelling from verbal to visual, the style to ‘show and don’t tell’, [...]
