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Screengem: The Caged Bird in Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
Part of the charm of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï comes from the subtle tongue-in-cheek alliterations to genre and character conventions…
On Location: Fury 161 in Alien 3 (David Fincher, 1992)
The setting for Alien 3 is a dank world devoid of sunlight and common sense. David Fincher’s first feature film…
New Releases: Mother!
Gratuitous splatter-fest or underrated masterpiece? Big Picture critic Thomas Puhr reviews Darren Aronofsky’s latest, Mother!
Screengem: Samantha Belmont’s Cheerleader Outfit from ‘Night of the Comet’ (Thom Eberhart, 1984)
This post apocalyptic slice of ‘80s camp about a comet that wipes out life on Earth save for a few…
Fashion & Film: Crisp Precision – Lindsay Crouse in House of Games
Her outfits are mannish; her words are enunciated with cold, distant, crisp precision; her presence is uptight and cautious; her…
Thousand Words: Kikuchiyo, The Seventh Samurai (Seven Samurai, 1954)
A man scowling while other onlookers appear behind him then pushing his way through the crowd in order to have…
New Releases: Wind River
Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River pitches us into an unforgiving wintry environment and declares once and for all, as if we…
Four Frames: Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)
(Warning: This article contains plot spoilers) M. Night Shyamalan has undergone an identity crisis. The writer, director, and bit-part ‘actor’…
Fashion & Film: Amy Adams in Nocturnal Animals
A friend of mine once told me that she’s most impeccably dressed when she is going through the most difficult…
Screengem: The Human Mask in Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
As dense and uncategorisable as Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) is, the filmmaker’s career-spanning fascination with the human face remains abundantly…
