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My Point Break quest: “It was about us against the system”
Sophie Brown’s search for the rights to screen Kathryn Bigelow’s surf classic seemed to be all washed up, but suddenly the tide turned, and now Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves’s Bodhi and Johnny can return to British screens.
Tuesday 14 November 2017 -
Shower scene studies: 78/52’s Psycho-analysis and film criticism in the belly of Hitchcock
Does obsessive Hitchcockiana like 78/52, Alexandre O. Philippe’s 78/52 feature-length video investigation of Psycho’s infamous shower scene, signal the master’s outsized cultural sway, or the rise of mass fan appropriation, asks Michael Atkinson?
Friday 3 November 2017 -
Walter Lassally, cameraman: a tribute in pictures
Images from the great director of photography’s life behind the camera, from London to Crete.
Wednesday 1 November 2017 -
“Where did you get this old fossil?”: Michael Powell’s first film rediscovered
Caste, a lively adaptation of a comic play about class, was the moment that the British director “tasted blood” and discovered his vocation. Now it is screening in London again for possibly the first time in 80 years, writes Geoff Brown.
Thursday 19 October 2017 -
Mexico earthquake: how the media responded
The strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century prompted an almost immediate media response. The initial rush of hashtags and memes were followed by film stars drumming up funds and a ‘RubbleCinema’. Soon even escapist cinema took on a new meaning, writes Paul Julian Smith.
Tuesday 10 October 2017 -
Tonsler Park: Kevin Jerome Everson captures democracy in close-up
This 16mm black-and-white documentary was filmed at Charlottesville polling stations the day that Donald Trump was elected, a riveting study of a world about to be shattered, writes Helen de Witt.
Wednesday 27 September 2017 -
“There is no Syrian cinema”: Syrian filmmakers since the civil war
For Syria’s own filmmakers in search of a new language of resistance to an authoritarian state, the collapse of their country has brought both freedom and tragedy, writes Charlotte Bank.
Tuesday 8 August 2017 -
Donald Trump’s chief adviser made his political fortune as the director of a catalogue of confused but delirious movie polemics that trumpet a fallen America awaiting a saviour. Celluloid Liberation Front watches another smashing of the line between fact and fiction.
Friday 4 August 2017 -
Syria on screen: how have movies represented the crisis?
Amid a rush of handwringing films dwelling on Syria’s easy spectacles of horror, argues Bidisha, there are also many more nuanced and resonant films made by people on the ground, listening to voices that otherwise go unheard.
Friday 4 August 2017 -
Black Film, British Cinema 2017: from representation to radicalism
Questions about black identity and British culture that were raised in the 1980s seem just as urgent today, as a recent conference in London made clear, writes Simran Hans.
Saturday 22 July 2017
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