Category Archives: Film
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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“Continually honing my ability to imagine is an important part of my work”: Interview with cinematographer Bill Kirstein
”Happyend”, 2025, directed by Neo Sora. Zakkubalan, Cineric Creative, Cinema Inutile There is this energy that runs as an undercurrent along with a lot of on screen teenage angst in Happyend. Neo Sora, at his debut feature film, explores … Read More
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February newsletter: Downhill Racer, Hounds of Love and West Coast Ivy
Photos: Buck Mason Ivy Collection lookbook (left). Classiq Journal (right) “And if I only could I’d make a deal with God And I’d get Him to swap our places Be runnin’ up that road Be runnin’ up that … Read More
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Tennis whites conceal dark times in “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”
”The Gatden of the Finzi-Continis, 1970, directed by Vittorio de Sica. Titanus, Documento Film, CCC-Filmkunst There has hardly ever been a more good-looking cast opening a film than this bunch of youngsters dressed in all-white tennis attire riding their … Read More
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Read instead…in print #40: Noriko Smiling
Looking close at one single film, Late Spring, Adam Mars-Jones draws a compelling, passionate and rigorous study that considers the film’s aesthetic and technical qualities and, most importantly, new ideas and interpretations different than any other Western and westernised … Read More
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