Category Archives: Film

This Summer We’re Channelling: Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig in “Spectre”

Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig. Jonathan Olley/ SPECTRE © 2015 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Danjaq, LLC and Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved.   This Summer We’re Channelling: a recurring seasonal series in the journal that celebrates both style in … Read More →

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Why Movies Still Need Cinemas

Movies come to us, so why go to the movies? Never has this idea loomed larger than in the last few months. And, yet, when this is all over, people will want to gather again in cinemas. Film makers and film festival directors share their opinion. Read More →

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Screen to Life: Nine Style Lessons from Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”, 1974 | The Malpaso Company   Clint Eastwood was in his mid-thirties when he had his breakthrough in A Fistful of Dollars (1964), taking the roles with Sergio Leone because no one in Hollywood … Read More →

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Sound to Screen

Film music is part of our fascination with cinema and the big screen. With Cannes Film Festival cancelled this month, we are still celebrating it and look at how film and music intersect in three of the best films that have opened in Cannes over the years. Read More →

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A Cinematic Gold Mine Made on Poverty Row: The Forgotten Films Noir

With Arthur Lyons’ Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir, you take a deeper and deeper dive into noir’s murky stories. The more obscure, the more forgotten, the less known, the better. A cinephile is truly an explorer. Read More →

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