Talking About Trees – Review Calum Baker February 5, 2020 Reviews 69 years ago, the inaugural issue of Cahiers du cinéma featured as its cover star Sunset Blvd. Suhaib Gasmelbari opens his documentary Talking About Trees along the same lines, as its subjects – a gang of...
The Wolfpack – Review Tom Bond August 4, 2015 Reviews The Wolfpack is a fascinating study of life lived on movies alone. They shape the Angulo family’s personalities, leading to some hilarious spot-on recreations, but the accompanying isolation breeds...
A Love Letter to… Sunset Boulevard Lina Jurdeczka September 11, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia A few years ago I took a Film Studies course at university. One of the classes dealt with cinephilia – the love of film. At the beginning of the session, the lecturer asked an interesting question that...
Waiting for the Apocalypse: On the Past, Present and Future of Cinephilia, Part 2 Lina Jurdeczka July 23, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features "Let's not talk about the good old times, but the bad new ones." - Bertolt Brecht In recent years the cinema has frequently been talked about as a lost cause. Regardless of the fact that home viewing was...
‘All Those Wonderful People Out There in the Dark’: On the Past, Present and Future of Cinephilia: Part 1 Lina Jurdeczka July 14, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 1 Comment There is a scene in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003) when the three main characters race through the Louvre in Paris, attempting to break a world record. A direct reference to Bande à Part (1964),...
