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I left Hamnet dry-eyed – so why did it affect others so powerfully?
VJs sit at the front of the cinema with a microphone and a sound mixer. Talking over the film, they explain its plot in the local language.
Hollywood has seen this movie before.
In 1955, Ealing Studios released The Ladykillers, a darkly comic tale about a gang of criminals whose bank robbery gets derailed by their elderly landlady.
It can feel daunting for modern film fans to know where to start with curating their taste.
Despite its original association with purity, it has become somewhat of a trope to put the humble milk glass in the hands of the ‘bad guy’.
The pope shared his four favorite films, and spoke to Hollywood heavyweights about why cinemagoing matters so much in the world today.
Two films trying to make sense of the chaos of America and in doing so expose the incoherence of this moment.
The old-school shooting format had been out of fashion for decades – before being rekindled last year in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.
Just as the gimmicky first films evolved into a sophisticated medium, will we look back on today’s AI-generated video as the beginnings of a new art form?
In the fall of 1985, two pioneering films offered radically different portrayals of AIDS – one intimate and confrontational, the other more cautious and network-friendly.
The enduring legacy of the 1925 film – with Lon Chaney as a villainous Phantom – is complicated by its tangled release history and multiple versions.
Bond films have leaned into and shifted away from the allure of hi-tech gadgetry at different times over the years.
The groundbreaking use of generative AI in final film footage begs questions of the audience that are rooted in deep human psychology.
Great film directors can create and convey philosophical concepts through imagery, just as great philosophers do through language.
Jaws was a film shaped by Jewish writers, ideas and a very personal connection to the shark.
There are only two Imax cinemas in the UK but if you can see Sinners at one, it will be a worthwhile experience.
Video games are a very different media from films, with different functions and representational strengths and weaknesses that make adaptations challenging.
Is China winning over Western youth through its cinema, video games and TikTok.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of French Studies, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, Adelaide University
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Professor of Cinema, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Lecturer in Creative Production and Performance, Western Sydney University
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Executive Director, Compton School
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London