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Riding the French New Wave: A Summer Series

Festivals Film Reviews

Pavements (2024): On the World’s Most Important Band

Festivals Film Reviews

Witches (2024)

8 March 20248 March 2024Film Reviews Oscar Nominated

Past Lives Review

James Carlstrand reflects on last year’s indie hit as the film garners nominations during this ongoing awards season. There is a moment in Past Lives where our …

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Updated on 8 March 20248 March 2024Film Reviews

Dumb Money Review

James Carlstrand reviews Craig Gillespie’s big screen adaptation of 2021s viral GameStop story. Dumb Money will undoubtedly receive much comparison to The Big Short, after all both …

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Updated on 15 April 20248 March 2024Misc. Features

An Evening With Tim Robey

James Carlstrand summarises a lively and insightful workshop with The Telegraph’s film critic Tim Robey On a cold Thursday evening back in November the Film …

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Updated on 26 February 202426 February 2024Blog Interviews

IFFR 2024 : Interview with director Helena Stefánsdottir

Mayra Nassef, FilmSoc Journal’s International Film Festival Rotterdam correspondent, interviews Helena Stefánsdottir, Icelandic director of Bon Appetit (2011) and her new feature Natatorium (2024). “Natatorium” …

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Updated on 19 February 202419 February 2024Misc. Features

The Devil’s Advocate: How Elliot Grove Became the Father of British Independent Cinema

In a sunlit corner of Wonderville Raindance headquarters, clad in signature sunglasses sat Elliot Grove, the visionary founder of Raindance Film Festival. Alexia Mihaila from …

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Updated on 19 February 202418 February 2024Essays Films

On Melodrama, and Why It Must Endure

Aryan Tauqeer discusses the position of the melodrama in the contemporary cinema landscape, the political history of the genre in Old Hollywood and how the …

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Updated on 18 February 202418 February 2024Film Reviews

Scala!!! Review: Playful Documentary Unearths Alternative Cinema-Going Experience

Will Palmer reviews Scala!!!, a documentary exploring the heyday of the infamous Scala cinema, and how its eclectic programming broke boundaries and shaped future creatives

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Updated on 18 February 202418 February 2024Misc. Features

“Behind the Screens: Programming the Beat of the BFI London Film Festival with Rowan Woods”

Alexia Mihaila and Aryan Tauqeer from the UCL Film & TV Society Journal caught up with Rowan Woods, a key programmer at the BFI London …

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Updated on 18 February 202418 February 2024Film Reviews

Yangzi’s Confusion Review

Mint Chinese Film Festival 2024, taking place from February 1 to 4, is one of the most influential film festivals for Chinese cinema, casting attention …

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Updated on 16 February 202416 February 2024Film Reviews Oscar Nominated

American Fiction Review

James Carlstrand reviews Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated satirical feature, American Fiction, measuring up its playful attack at the flawed publishing industry. Spoiler Alert : American Fiction’s …

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