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…
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‘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…
Experiment & Play: Norman McLaren’s Animations
byDefining itself as a “record on celluloid”, Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent documentary film Man with a Movie Camera consciously avoids the trappings of story…
Coming Home: Postmodern Ecstasy in Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’
byBlue Velvet performs a profound destabilisation of domestic space and the body. Jeffrey Beaumont, the film’s protagonist, finds a severed ear in a field…
Warhol’s ‘Lupe’: The Fictitious And Desired Death Of Edie Sedgwick
byAndy Warhol’s film Lupe (1966) restages the mythic account of one celebrity’s suicide as a strategic ploy to envision another’s. Lupe is known to…
The Top 10 Weirdest David Lynch Characters
byHalloween must surely be the best time of year to appreciate the weirdness that David Lynch has brought to the world. But how do…
Industry Profile: Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO DreamWorks
byAt this year’s BFI London Film Festival keynote, Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed his incredibly successful career (from Paramount to Disney and then on to co-founding…
7 Latin American Filmmakers You Ought to Know About
byOver the last ten years a subtle revolution has been taking place around the world, with the advanced filmmaking technology allowing entire feature films to come to existence through…