From the work of Bob Flanagan to the lowbrow, mainstream spectacle of the JACKASS films, self-injury becomes culturally valuable through its exposure to an audience, raising the fundamental question of whether suffering only acquires cultural meaning when it is witnessed by others.
Director Kevin Walls talks about his experience finding the right leads, doing Glasgow justice on screen, and why, to him, PREMATURE is a coming of age story at heart.
Zinedine Zidane has a case to be the most cinematic of footballers. ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT stands as a key pillar of his enduring mystical status twenty years on.
Conservative commentators may not yet connect with Zohran Mamdani’s words at his inauguration, but cinema heard them and is articulating what civility and empathy are for.
As AKIRA took to the cinema screen once again for a re-release just this year, it reminded us of its storming arrival to the science-fiction genre in 1988. The film may not suggest a perfect tomorrow, but promises a future we can choose.
As we approach twenty years after the release of CHILDREN OF MEN, Alfonso Cuarón’s imagining of a grim world racked not by a plague or natural disaster, but by human apathy, remains a fitting warning.
DIE MY LOVE is unlikely to be considered the pinnacle of Ramsay’s career. Still, even when revisiting themes, the intense clarity of vision ensures Ramsay’s work continues to feel fresh and ominously vibrant.
Both Shakespeare and Zhao acknowledge the beauty of grief, which is, of course, a form of love, as well as its horrific reality. Whatever you have lost will be touched upon when you see this film. Tears streamed down my face, my breath coming in shudders by the end.
Some aspects of David Secter’s legacy are likely beneficial to leave behind, but WINTER KEPT US WARM preserves a singular lifeworld in poetic form, bringing the raw and honest tumult of youthful romance into lyrical harmony with all the advantages cinema offers.
With the 20th anniversary of the release of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, it’s pertinent to look back on the wave of criticism that the film was met with upon its release, particularly concerning ideas of the Western among more conservative figures in the film industry.
