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For decades, various kinds of disability have been used as ‘scary’ metaphors in horror. But a new wave of filmmakers is challenging this problematic framing.
In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.
Great film directors can create and convey philosophical concepts through imagery, just as great philosophers do through language.
POV shots can be extremely effective, presenting an entirely new way of looking at a character, or their motivations.
A new book explores the enormous Alien franchise spawned by the 1979 film.
It would be easy to interpret the Wachowskis’ films as innately trans, but in doing so, we might be relying too heavily on auteur theory.
The process of coming to terms with a loss is central to these films, which are aching and inventive renderings of complex feelings and moments.
BlacKkKlansman is more than a good story: it expertly weaves together comedy with serious drama to bring the story of past racism to illuminate our present day issues.
From ‘Mean Streets’ to ‘Vinyl’, from The Ronettes to The Clash, music has long been a muse to film director Martin Scorsese. He plays it on set, conceives sequences with certain songs in mind and uses it to chart his characters’ changing fortunes.
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