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Revisiting The Outsiders, Coppola’s unexpectedly life-affirming tale of gang life
The eighties spawned a number of glossy movies full of good looking actors, the type that belong to the brat-pack…
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In its opening scenes, Julia Ducournau’s Raw establishes Justine (Garance Marillier) as a strict vegetarian; when she finds a piece of…
Liminal spaces as sites of transformation in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank
The tall fence encloses the camp on all sides. Its metal uprights are spiked at the top. The railway cuts…
How Givenchy and Hepburn created a style legacy together
“His design, his thought centered and focused on her [Audrey’s] physical being. It’s like a great composer when he writes…
Discover this generation-spanning drama about cultural change in post-war Japan
In Mikio Naruse’s 1956 film A Wife’s Heart, the family serves as a microcosm for tradition and changes in post-war Japanese society….
Four Frames: discover Éric Rohmer’s heartfelt testament to parenthood
Éric Rohmer was fascinated by philosopher Blaise Pascal’s ‘wager’ of faith, a literal gamble one takes in either believing or…
A dive into the twisted psychology of Dogtooth
According to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, our personalities are formed through our relationship to language as we encounter things, and seek…
How Diane Keaton carved out a new kind of style icon in Annie Hall
Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) has just met Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) for a double match at a tennis club in…
5 practical tips for making your first indie film
Whether you fancy yourself as the next Kurosawa or you simply have a story you’re itching to tell, getting started…
