Little Women and “The Club of Geniuses”
byIn an interview with Anna Rose Holmer for the December Filmmaker Magazine, Greta Gerwig describes Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 Little Women as being about “art…
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No Time To Die: Why Good Old-Fashioned Cinema is Still Alive and Kicking
byNominative Determinism can be a funny thing. Over the past few weeks, with the whole world gripped in a state of contagious panic and doubts…
Climax: Revisiting Gaspar Noé’s Spellbinding Spectacle
byIn 2018, Gaspar Noé reentered the bizarre world of New French Extremism, which he first popularised with his film Irréversible - arguably his most shocking…
Why André Aciman’s Find Me Is An Unadaptable Call Me By Your Name Sequel
byLuca Guadagnino’s 2017 film Call Me By Your Name quickly became a darling of independent, and LGBTQ+ cinema. The film won the hearts of many,…
Berlinale 2020: Movies That Should Be On Your Agenda
byA little bit less than a month – and the 70th Berlinale is upon us! This time with a new head – Carlo Chatrian from…
Robert De Niro has arrived, again.
byBy the time the 92nd annual Academy Awards airs in February, four decades will have passed since Robert De Niro claimed his second win for…
Léolo: Madness and Beauty in the World
byIt is said that great art often contains an element of contextual weirdness, a bit of the outré or taboo that contributes to the…
The Movies That Made Me: An Interview With Natalie Ng
byIn The Movies That Made Me, we interview creative individuals on how cinema has shaped and informed their body of work, exploring how film can…
An Interview With Director Astrid Menzel
byThe Berlin-Bremen filmmaker Astrid Menzel sat down with me so I could ask her some questions about her award-winning short film and her way…