Hitchcock Toys with Filmgoers in ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’
Filmmaker Mark Cousins’ My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock uses provoking ideas to encourage expanding our understanding of the works of this 20th-century giant of cinema.
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Psychological Drama God’s Creatures Renders the Maternal Toxic
Like pride before a fall, the psychological drama God’s Creatures critiques the sentimentality of blood and the tribal mindset of loyalty above conscience.
The 95th Academy Awards: Is Hollywood Still Only Flirting with Change?
The 95th Academy Awards laid bare a political contradiction, and an attempt to fix a lack of previous recognition for Jamie Lee Curtis was controversial. But is Hollywood still just flirting with the change it needs to make?
In Thriller ‘The Night of the 12th’ Justice Is Absent
French true crime adaptation The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12) is a response to the fraught relationship between men and women, and the detective as metaphor.
The DIY Effect on Self-Funded Director Juleen Compton’s Dramas
Juleen Compton’s little-known ’60s films, Truffaut-effected Stranded and Mekas’-affirming The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, have been lovingly restored thanks to her work ethic in a completely different field.
‘Secret of the Incas’ Is Finally Exhumed from Hollywood’s Tomb
The 1954 Hollywood adventure film Secret of the Incas may have a whiff of Indiana Jones about it to contemporary viewers, but it’s better than expected for a film that’s almost been buried in a tomb.
‘M3GAN’ Conjures the Horror of Anti-Materialism
At the dark heart of M3GAN is the loneliness we fill with things because we don’t know what else to do. It conjures the horror of anti-materialism.
Shunned French Crime Film ‘A Woman Kills’ Slips Out of the Shadowy Margins
French New Wave director Jean-Denis Bonan is among the cursed and damned filmmakers – revered by a few, reviled by most. His formerly shunned A Woman Kills (1968) slips out of the shadowy margins and appears for modern viewers.
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and the Politics of Genre
In genre-busting sci-fi Everything Everywhere All At Once, the multiverse is not a genre but a metaphor that invites audiences to think about the complexities and politics of genres.
What ‘The Quiet Girl’ Can Tell Us About the ‘Incel’ of Inisherin
Ireland-set dramas The Quiet Girl and The Banshees of Inisherin share character types that suffer similar neglect yet tragically divergent fates.
Sexuality in ’60s Cinema: ‘Three Films by Mai Zetterling’
Three Films by Mai Zetterling reveal the themes in the controversial director’s work: women’s lives, their fraught and ambiguous relationships with sex and motherhood, and how women interact with each other.
Be Like an Eel: Director Antoneta Kusijanović on ‘Murina’
Director Antoneta Kusijanovic discusses honouring the resilient spirit of young adults in her award-winning debut feature Murina.
