Overview of articles
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Hopper/Welles
Young movie rebel Dennis Hopper spends an evening of film talk and bawdy banter with Hollywood’s maverick suprême, Orson Welles.Published on: -
Hands Up Mr. Rasnichi
An animated cautionary tale about totalitarianism in an irreverent, surreal 1960s mix of styles. Featuring acerbic cabaret icon Helmut Qualtinger.Published on: -
Fat Chance
Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar’s inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and spectres. An avant-garde film-historical essay.Published on: -
Everything Is Cinema
When Covid-19 hits the world, director Chris finds himself shooting a different film from the one he intended to make.Published on: -
Charisma
An essay parable, part documentary part fiction, on the desire for a leader, anchored in Brecht’s 1935 poem A Worker Reads History.Published on: -
The Amusement Park
Discover how Zombie-film godfather George A. Romero turned a Lutheran church-sponsored social-guidance film into a grimly gaudy horror show.Published on: -
Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoire
A forceful portrait of architect-filmmaker-artist Amos Gitaï, focusing on two clusters in his oeuvre. Lucid and enlightening.Published on: -
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Kier-La Janisse helps us understand our current cultural malaise through this essay on an enigmatic aspect of horror cinema.Published on: -
Rock Bottom Riser
Hawaii as the intersection of ancient Polynesian culture, nature, colonialism, religion and astronomy. Full of immense images.Published on: -
Phoenix
Freewheeling film celebrating both sexual and stylistic fluidity. Phoenix literally changes colour as the characters circle one another.Published on: