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For @ArtReview_ I wrote about cinema in 2024, the year the film world turned a blind eye to genocide artreview.com/the-year-in-fi…
Wrote this short essay about Kelly Reichardt, trains, and loneliness for the 'Movement' issue of @tankmagazine 🚂🚂🚂
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wrote about Konrad Wolf and his waywardly ambivalent East German cinema @MUBI mubi.com/en/program-notes/in…
ALT Renate Blume in The Divided Heaven (1964)
ALT Renate Krössner in Solo Sunny (1980)
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"Half intergenerational bildungsroman & half technocratic noir, the novel consists of a series of dualisms: corporation versus flock, coming-of-age versus eternal youth, vampirism versus bucolicism, layman versus clergy."
Alice Brewer on LOST LAMBS
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For @TheLondonMag I've written a long essay about my favourite actor, Barbara Stanwyck - also about melodrama, crying in the cinema, and how the things that most repulse us in others are often the things we most shamefully recognise within ourselves
Available in print in the latest Aug/Sep issue of the magazine, link here! (or I can email a copy of the essay to anyone who wants one!) thelondonmagazine.org/produc…
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The Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari restages her childhood experiences to devastating effect in her semi-autobiographical feature Blue Heron.
@iantwang reviews. In cinemas Friday. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
For @SightSoundmag I wrote about Blue Heron, a very moving and honest film about the things we believe we know and understand about the past, that we have in fact never understood and will never understand
From this: newleftreview.org/issues/i91…
Only just realised that the experimental filmmaker who made My Name Is Oona is called GUNVOR Nelson, not GUVNOR Nelson. I've been pronouncing her name like a Cockney in my head this entire time...
Back in @SightSoundmag with a review of the new film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of the Hills, an adaptation which poses interesting questions but can only give boring answers
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The Gaza playbook, applied to a major Arab capital city that was once called the Paris of the Middle East.
War crime upon war crime.
Aftermath of overnight Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
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