Thursday Morning Rant: A Short But Uninformed Study On Hipsters And Wes Anderson
byAccording to my Wikipedia/Youtube research, the word “hipster” was coined in jazz circles of the 1930s and 1940s and was meant to describe a…
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Thursday Morning Rant: On Film Rants, Melville And Being Cool
by“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads! Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the…
Food On Film: How Chowing Down Redefined Cinema
byIf someone were to compile a list of the most memorable locations on screen in the last fifty years, where would spring to mind?…
Artist Transforms Cinema Icons Into Tattooed Hipsters
byCould you imagine a heavily tattooed Merlin Monroe? Or the subtle Audrey Hepburn showing off her ink? Seattle-based artist Cheyenne Randall spends his spare…
A Sad Loss For Cinema: Alain Resnais Obituary
byAcclaimed French film director Alain Resnais has died in Paris aged 91. In a career spanning sixty years Resnais first rose to fame as…
Beyond Colour: Those Bloody Reds
byIn an article written long before directing his first feature, Antonioni recognized colour as a powerful and partly autonomous element of film language, “a…
Much Ado About Adapting: Joss Whedon’s Vacation In Messina
byThe Macbeth adaptation released later on this year combines the forces of Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, who will star as the power-crazed Macbeth and…
The Uneasy Charm of Cary Grant
byWhy Cary Grant can still win us over even when playing a murderer. The recent death of Joan Fontaine made me dig out my…
‘Norte, the End of History’: Why Diaz’s Masterpiece Deserves More Acclaim
byNorte, the End of History‘s screening at Cannes last year was Lav Diaz’s first entry into the most famous film festival of all. Named…