“It was impossible for my father to keep still.”
[Essay] In Suspense of the Real: Cronenberg, Gilliam and Lynch — Louis Armand
“Concerned with the status of the ‘Real,’ these films are necessarily both self-reflexive and projective, folding the transcendental loop back on itself – from a dialectics of the ‘fable’ to the entropic spiral of the ‘image'”.
[Fiction] — Clodagh O’Brien
“An earthquake goes off at the table.”
[Review] Embers by Claire Carré — Mike Miley
“His name is not Prospero, but The Tempest is certainly what Carré is going for here. “
[Essay] Human ambition and nature in Werner Herzog — Jake Sanders
“Herzog’s trademark sense of humour is never more apparent than when he explores humanity’s clashes with the natural world.”
[Fiction] — Micah White
“Tomorrow they’ll flip the switch on the machine that helps Papi’s lungs do their job, but tonight Mom’s making Brussels sprouts.”
[Interview] Nation, Ethnicity and Race in Russian Television: Professor Vera Tolz — Joseph Barker
“As Putin’s Russia continues to present a growing threat to the geo-political stability of Eastern Europe, academic research investigating the portrayal of nation, ethnicity and race in modern Russian media has become an incredibly significant and influential field.”
[Fiction] ‘Fall Like Nelson’ — Richard Barr
“He’s got me. He always knows how to get me. Lets me paint myself into a corner, then watches me squirm.”
[Fiction]: ‘Little Man’ and ‘Bus 53 — Niles Reddick
“When his voice boomed, ‘Cut it out’, there was silence and conformity.”
[Essay] Satirising Genre: The Graduate as Rom-Com — Dan Norman
“The film’s final ten minutes combine so many rom-com tropes it feels like outright parody—despite being made decades before the high watermark of the genre.”
[Essay] Why radio is not an exhausted form — Mariana Des Forges
“Auditory storytelling deprives the brain of the passive satisfaction of ‘being shown.’”
[Essay] Enfranchisement and Equality: Feminism, Politics and Religion in the Middle East — Tim Harvey
“The main cultural obstacle for feminist movements in the Middle East is the reproduction, on a national level, of the traditional patriarchal family model, which sees men as active and women as passive members of the nation.”
[Essay] The Hunger Games: Earning the Two-Parter — Lucas Hill-Paul
“Double feature franchise films seem doomed to ridicule from both cynics and critics.”
[Essay] Infidelity and Ennui in Mad Men and The Ice Storm — Jake Sanders
“The sense of growth and resolution that attracted Lee to the idea of adapting The Ice Storm for the screen is conspicuously absent from Mad Men.”
[Essay] Marooned Between Dreams and Reality: Surrealist Satire on Film — Jacob Bernard-Banton
“Surrealism’s preoccupation with the subconscious, and the gulf between dreams and reality, is writ large in Barton Fink’s implied insomnia.”
[Review] Holy Nowhere by Nick Power — James Mcloughlin
“This is a collection that exists in the moments in-between, revelling in the feeling of twilight momentum viewed from the fringes”
[Fiction] ‘Squirrel’ and ‘Halloween’ — Kapka Nilan
“Dusk had just started to unfold.”
[Essay] Counter-Casting in Road to Perdition — Dan Norman
“Four of the five biggest roles are cast against type, which is surely more than mere coincidence.”
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