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How to write a fictional pop song
The struggles of pop singers on their up or down are the stuff of new movies from A Star Is Born and Wild Rose to Vox Lux and Her Smell. But who gives the characters their musical direction? Alex Denney talks to Wild Rose’s script- and song-writer Nicole Taylor and Her Smell’s Alicia Bognanno.
Tuesday 16 April 2019 -
From the Magazine
The raucous perfection of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
Kubrick’s brutal-surrealist adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian caper – now back in UK cinemas on re-release – is a boisterous and gaudy vindication of the director’s acclaimed perfectionism, argued Philip Strick on its original release.
Thursday 4 April 2019 -
Iranian cinema now: ancient mythologies in a modern medium
A season of recent Iranian films emphasises poetry over politics, foregrounding the lyrical and universal strengths of work by a new generation of filmmakers, writes Ben Nicholson.
Tuesday 2 April 2019 -
From the Magazine
S&S contributors reflect on the late artist and filmmaker as cinematic pioneer, (self)portraitist, joy-maker, word poet, cartographer, multimedia artist and visual stylist, from our 90th birthday tribute issue.
Monday 1 April 2019 -
Art within the machine: how machinima turns the camera on videogames
People having been making movies out of videogame graphics since the technology first allowed players to press record. Whether fan homages shared online, pointed critiques or gallery pieces, these works are part of a thriving and fast-evolving practice, writes Matt Turner.
Saturday 30 March 2019 -
“A glorious and ridiculous ride”: Steve Sullivan on excavating Frank and the Chris Sievey story
Director Steve Sullivan shares the story of his years-long quest to uncover and understand the man behind Frank Sidebottom, the cult comic figure with the papier-maché head, with Leigh Singer.
Saturday 30 March 2019 -
From the Magazine
The films of Straub and Huillet: images richer than words
The films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have seldom found distribution in the UK, on account of their perceived difficulty. Yet their half-century of working together shows an unparalleled commitment to intense human experience, as Tag Gallagher explains.
Wednesday 20 March 2019 -
From the Magazine
Alien encounter: on the set of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror
Before the world knew what had hit it, our reporter Philip Strick visited the set of Ridley Scott’s answer to Star Wars, to discuss terror, smoke and the Alien Problem – but bathsoap not so much.
Monday 4 March 2019 -
The cinema of Ulrich Köhler: slow-burn dramas of dislocation
As the ‘Berlin School’ writer-director’s work is celebrated in a short retrospective, Ross McDowell takes a look at his four features to date, which all rotate around ideas of alienation and ambiguity, culminating in his speculative apocalypse tale In My Room.
Wednesday 27 February 2019 -
From the Magazine
Film as life: tributes to Jonas Mekas at 90
The great Jonas Mekas, who has died aged 96, was the godfather of avant-garde film, as maker of his own works and facilitator of other people’s. Here we reprint our tributes to Mekas on his 90th birthday by Amy Taubin and five great fellow filmmakers.
Wednesday 30 January 2019
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