I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
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Armed with rolls of film, some young people are opting out of their algorithmic feeds in favor of experiencing life in ways that feel more deliberate, personal and tangible.
Our picks this week include a history of how America came to love football, a book about freedom of speech, an adaptation of a Woolf book and two artistic takes on nature.
Who was the ‘real’ Robin Hood – community champion or violent criminal? Those in power and the people who shared his tales in pubs have long disagreed.
Critically slated for not being modernist enough, Night and Day is a reappraisal.
Supergirl has long struggled to emerge from the shadow of her cousin, Superman.
First published in 2000, Persepolis created a transformative shift in comics, memoir and political storytelling. Its Iranian–French creator has died, aged 56.
Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.
It’s hard to root for a story where boy meets girl and they live happily ever after in a time when that is happening less in real life.
As we approach the centenary of Monroe’s birth, the image that endures in the public imagination has been largely stripped of voice and agency.
With little revelation, it’s an indictment of the film’s inability to discover dramatic life in these potentially rich scenes.
The street art giving Greenland’s villages a sense of hope.
Monroe envisioned her home as a sanctuary ‘for any friends of mine who are in some kind of trouble’.
The Backrooms began with a single image: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
Online platforms like Reddit and Wattpad let writers test their skills for an audience – and provide a testing ground for Hollywood, too, through likes and upvotes.
Most of Errol Flynn’s films now seem B-grade at best – but Patricia O'Brien’s biography of this Tasmanian devil is compulsive reading.
Steven Soderbergh’s new film raises important questions about authenticity, creative ownership and racism in the art world.
Our picks for this week include two striking exhibitions and Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film of all time.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 shows how fashion operates as a language of identity, signalling status, ambition and belonging.
The film asks what makes a star kabuki actor – hard work or blood?
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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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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Cinema, RMIT University
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Lecturer in Creative Production and Performance, Western Sydney University
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Researcher and Sessional Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies; Secretary for the Melbourne Cinematheque, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Media Studies and Production, University of Southern Queensland