Category Archives: Editorial

Editorial: Make them laugh

Louis de Funès and Bourvil in “La grande vadrouille”, 1966, directed by Gérard Oury. Les Films Corona, The Rank Organisation   The Editorial: thoughts, short stories or essays about the world of cinema   It’s 1942. Three Royal Air Force … Read More →

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World on a Wire

  This film. One of those films that fall into the category of “I wish I could say that this film saved the world from itself”: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Welt am Draht (World on a Wire), 1973. What effect can … Read More →

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Running Up That Hill, Max Mayfield, and that unbelievably perfect character-music connection

Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in “Stranger Things”, season 4. Netflix   We will forever be grateful to Martin Scorsese for revolutionising movie soundtrack, being one of the pioneers (before Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson) in using preexisting music, approaching … Read More →

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Back to the Future: The New Visual Inspiration

  I have always liked large scale magazine pages: the impact of that visual storytelling is unequalled. But just as the screens have gotten smaller and smaller and films can now be watched on one’s phone instead of the big … Read More →

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Room to Dream

“James Dean’s acting flies in the face of fifty years of filmmaking; each gesture, each attitude, each mimicry is a slap at the psychological tradition.” On his birthday, we go behind the story of the photograph that Dennis Stock took of the actor on what would be his last visit to Fairmount, Indiana. Read More →

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