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Keyuri Gawde
Oct 21, 20244 min read
Sex, Lies, And Videotape: Re-writing Voyeurism In The 1980s
“You let a total stranger record your sexual life on videotape, but you won’t tell your own sister?” Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven...
Barney Nuttall
Jan 31, 20245 min read
The Scala Of Tomorrow: Where Is Cult Cinema Today?
Sticky seats, loud heckling, and the not-so-vague hint of booze. These are the remains of the Scala Cinema for those ever-devoted fans....
Oisín McGilloway
Jul 3, 20234 min read
Surrealism In The Sun: 'The Swimmer' At BFI Film On Film Festival
Screened for likely the last time on its original Technicolour dye-transfer print, watching Frank Perry’s 1968 film The Swimmer on the...
Oisín McGilloway
Jun 9, 20234 min read
BFI Film on Film: A Different Type of Film Festival
The inaugural Film on Film Festival at BFI Southbank kicks off this Thursday, featuring a wide range of film screenings, all with one...
Ollie Macnaughton
Sep 16, 20204 min read
The Projector Grows Dim
As London went dark once lockdown began, one of the many thoughts that raced through my mind was what would happen to cinemas. Much has...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
Sep 13, 20204 min read
A Cinema of One's Own
I am the kind of person that sets aside multiple days of the week to go see a movie at the cinema. Even the process of getting the ticket...
Anoushka Chakrapani
Feb 19, 20193 min read
Our Problematic Obsession with True Crime
True crime has left the jurisdiction of the courtroom and moved on to our TV screens. A surge of "adapted from true events" films about...
Victor Chaix
Nov 30, 20184 min read
Rafiki, or the futility of politicizing love
‘Let’s make a pact, become something real’. With a whole religious, social, political and moral order positioned against homosexuality,...
Hannah Clayton
Nov 1, 20184 min read
Politicising Private Love
A response to ‘Lust to Love and in Between’ – a programme of short films released as part of the London Film Festival. Traditionally,...
Ceyda Uzun
Aug 15, 20172 min read
The Best from Summer's Sundance Festival
Having enjoyed a full day of screenings and press interviews in June for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, many of the highlights are...
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