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Lights, Camera, But Definitely No Action: Sex On Screen and Covid-19
Curtains have been closed, concession stands bare, for many months. The arts industries have suffered more than many, performing arts in particular, mostly in light of how easily an infectious disease could proliferate in an enclosed space full of people sitting shoulder to shoulder. Concerns now seem to have, well, spread deeper into the industrial Read More…
The Classics Revisited
“It is a truth universally acknowledged” that since man stepped behind a camera we have been subjected to some particularly questionable attempts at adapting those ‘classics’ we hold so dear. The dilemma – to adapt or not to adapt – is a pressing one. ‘Classics’ is not a term I use lightly; on the surface, Read More…
After the End of the World, Music Remains
Review: Space is the Place, Sun Ra.
The Philistine’s Guide to Film in Translation
The genre we expect to be scared of is horror. So, why do we fear the foreign-language film? Is it down to its definition; the ‘foreign’ that is synonymous to ‘alien’? I argue the fear of the subtitled film is the fear of the unknown – or not the unknown, but what we do not Read More…
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu: Céline Sciamma’s Unmissable Feminist Tale
Lesbian representation in films, in particular mainstream films, is difficult to find. The industry often shies away from a plot that focuses itself around the love between two women, perhaps out of a belief that it will not attract enough viewers, or perhaps because it is often over-sexualised and therefore reduces the scope of such Read More…
Nostalgia, Nightmare, and Never-Ending Netflix: A review of Anima
If you were to sit down and watch all of Netflix’s content, it would take you around 36,000 hours. That’s just over four years. So the length of a Classics degree (if you were after an Oxford-equivalent statistic ). It’s something I’ve given a fair amount of thought to lately since we’ve been in lockdown for around Read More…
Tarantino: Quent-essential Film Making
Nikita Baryshnikov dives into Quentin Tarantino’s world-making and why works are so timeless and popular.
Illustration by Ipsita Sarkar
The Platform: Netflix’s latest dystopian portrayal of inequality
Matthew Barrett reviews the dystopian presentation of prisons in Gaztulu-Urrita’s ‘The Platform’ out on Netflix now
Take That! Only God Forgives?
This week in Take That! Jiaqi talks justice, Ryan Gosling and race in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives