Nuri Bilge Ceylan and the Fallacy of Slow Cinema Patrick Nabarro November 28, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight “Are we losing interest in everyday life?” says one young librarian to another in Kogonada’s superb Columbus – one of the finest films to hit UK cinemas this year. The comment comes at the end of an...
Soderbergh’s Solaris: A Superior Hollywood Remake Patrick Nabarro August 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Steven Soderbergh has always been a filmmaker who belies easy stereotyping. His prolificness and his chameleon-like ability to switch between genres, between the arthouse and the mainstream, have always made...
Fear and Faith: The Apocalyptic Architecture of Stalker Tom Bond July 25, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features One look and you can tell how well a society functions. It’s all about order. Are the streets clear of rubbish? Are the walls fresh with paint? People only tend to care how something looks once they’re...
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Tarkovsky’s Reinvention of the Femme Fatale in Solaris Patrick Nabarro April 4, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features In John Keats’ haunting poem about the elusiveness of perfect love, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ (translation: "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy"), the poem’s main conduit, the Knight, recounts a...
Top 10 Directorial Debuts Patrick Nabarro June 23, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The directorial debut is an interesting phenomenon: for every illustrious filmmaker who nailed their craft at the first time of asking, other estimable auteurs needed a number of cracks to hit their...
