Thank You For The Music: Phantom Of The Paradise
byPhantom of the Paradise is a musical horror film about the lexicon devil that is the music industry and the pain of exerting everything for…
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The Language Before Cinema
byWhat really makes a cinematic movement? We all know about collectives of film-makers with a connected conscience, rebellious political motives, and reactionary auteurs united…
Los Angeles Goes to the Movies: Our Top Films
byIt all comes together in Los Angeles: a city impossible to imagine without remembering scenes and images from films, a city simultaneously manufactured and…
Revolutionising Adult Cinema: An Interview With Erika Lust
byErika Lust returns to Berlin on 12th & 14th July 2017 for XCONFESSIONS: OPEN AIR EROTIKA at Sisyphos! Wed 12th July: Facebook Event //…
Linklater Retrospective: ‘Before Sunrise’ Makes Us Ache In All The Right Places
byIf you’ve never heard of Before Sunrise, you might have heard of Richard Linklater. Most recently known for his nine-year love child Boyhood, Before Sunrise is…
‘Toni Erdmann’ Review: An Exercise In Holding Onto A Fleeting Moment
byThrough what portal do we enter a film? Unlike Orson Welles’ famously complex crane shot at the beginning of Touch of Evil or Wim…
Forrest Trump: Would Gump Have Voted For ‘The Donald’?
byWith the inauguration of The Donald now official, there’s never been a better time to look back over this most unexpected of political years and…
‘The Handmaiden’ Reframes Lesbian Sex And Queer, Feminist Cinema
byPraises be to the Sapphic queen, lesbians are finally in vogue. Ever since Blue is the Warmest Colour turned women-loving-women into an ostentatious, borderline…
Decadent Men: On Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’
byFrom the darkly lyrical ennui of Fleurs du Mal or the moral deterioration of Dorian Gray to the existential overtones of Waiting for Godot—the…