As deodorant becomes ever more crucial, parks become more picnic blanket than grass, and grass becomes watered with chicken wine, it is clear that summer …
Riding the French New Wave: A Summer Series
2025
Pavements (2024): On the World’s Most Important Band
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins pins down Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, a documentary/mockumentary/fictional concert film which stands out in the sea of musical biopics as a ‘semiotic experimental’ …
Witches (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins reviews Witches– Elizabeth Sankey’s essayistic film examination of mothers, witches, and the ways we mishandle both. Women often come in threes. The high …
Nosferatu (2024) : Return of the Frightfully Familiar
Euan Toh takes stock of the Stoker narrative remake, weighing it up against past versions to see if this year’s take on the vampire can …
The Flesh of Language (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins analyses the effect of Amanda Rice’s documentary on analogue media and animal extinction, The Flesh of Language. The body of analogue media and …
Don’t Read While You Eat
Sothysen Tuyor reconsiders Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) fifty years after its release and three years after being voted …
Salt of the Earth (1954): The Ultimate Red Scare Counter-Narrative
Edward Lahner looks back on Herbert J Biberman’s Salt of the Earth, telling the remarkable tale of its production and reception history from the McCarthy …
Nickel Boys (2024)
Our festival correspondent Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins considers RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys (2024) and the fleshing-out effect of film. Since we first put celluloid to screen, assembly …
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)
Caleb Tan reviews Thai comedy drama How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, a tear-jerking box-office sensation that has warmed the cockles of many hearts …