Personally, 2017 was a great year for film. In fact I would go as far to say that it was one of the best years in cinema for a long time. However, 2017 has ended and 2018 has already kick started with the Golden Globes. So to help with my grievances of 2017, I have […]
British cinema for some reason does not have the greatest of reputations, particularly within the cinephile, art-house circles. In the Guardian’s Top 25 art-house films of all time, only one (Davies’ Distant Voice, Still Lives) and a half (Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange) of those films were British. And art-house king ,Francois Truffaut, once famously described […]
Some films are better off going in as blind as possible, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of those. Yorgos Lanthimos returns after the success of his 2015 dark comedy The Lobster, with this unsettling, psychological horror about grief and family sacrifice. Colin Farrell’s Steven Murphy is a charismatic, rich and successful heart […]
It’s Halloween time so in obvious fashion I have decided to post a list of my favourite horror films. From European art-house to American mainstream, literary adaptations to franchise beginnings. 10. Blood and Black Lace (1964, Mario Bava, Italy). No-one quite does stylish horror quite like the the Italian’s and Bava’s 1964 giallo Blood and Black […]
Debuting at 2017’s Sundance Festival A Ghost Story is a supernatural drama directed and written by David Lowery that explores loss, love, time and existence. An ambitious film, it follow’s the sheeted ghost of a dead husband, as he waits and wanders around his old home. Framed in a boxy 1:33 aspect ratio with vignette […]
The best films from the first half of year. A year so far which has been dominated by independent uniqueness, genre subversion, stellar literary adaptations and a step forward for representation. 20. Trespass Against Us (Adam Smith, UK and US) 19. The Love Witch (Anna Biller, US) 18. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, UK and US) […]
Ever since its screening at the Toronto International film festival last September, Moonlight has been tipped to be the one to look out for this awards season. Having already picked up Best Motion Picture Drama award at the Golden Globes, the film has also been nominated for eight Academy Awards, making it the second most nominated […]
Like most critical approaches to film study and theory, applying the concepts of psychoanalysis (mainly the work of Sigmund Freud) began to emerge in the 1960’s when critics and academics saw the potential of using psychoanalysis to unlock further meaning within film. Using Freud’s concepts such as the unconscious, the Oedipus/Electra complex, the super-ego/ego, narcissism […]
Since its early beginnings, cinema has been criticised for its lack of prestige. Considered as a low-brow populist form of entertainment, the world of film struggled to be considered by scholars as an artistic form as serious as painting or literature. It was not until experimental film-making began before academics and critics began to step […]
In preparation for the release of Sebastian Schnipper’s 138 minute, continual take attempt Victoria, we are exploring the history of one-take cinema, and looking at the craft’s biggest successes. From the awards success of Birdman and the spectacular opening sequence in the latest Bond outing SPECTRE, to the hotly anticipated new German release Victoria, why […]
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