Une Femme Douce (1969) refuses to shed light on a marriage gone wrong in a delicate yet merciless manner, Savina Petkova writes. … More A Silent Woman: rewatching Une Femme Douce
It’s time to look back on the early inventions and emergence of cinema with the internet and contemporary moving image culture in mind, they have much more in common than we once thought, Storm Patterson writes. … More Early Cinema and contemporary Internet culture
Auteur criticism warps film history and certain films are selected from the recesses of cinema’s past and given special attention because they have a name (typically a man’s) attached to them, Tom René writes. … More Artistic failures against auteurism
Santa Sangre is about performance, taking on a role to hide the dark secrets that live in the soul, Camilla Peeters writes. … More Santa Sangre: how cinema deceives
Spurned by its own distributor as, “a sick film made by sick people for sick people,” Bad Timing deals with the story of how one man’s obsession leads to his lover’s attempted suicide, Anita Markoff writes. … More Dead Bodies and Bad Timing
One of the most striking details in two comparative moon landing documentaries, For All Mankind (1989) and Apollo 11 (2019), is the presence of white men, Charlie Jones writes. … More Representation in Al Reinert’s For All Mankind and Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11
Film critic for The Observer, Simran Hans, gave this year’s Philip French Memorial Lecture as a keynote address at Watershed, in partnership with Festival of Ideas and as part of Cinema Rediscovered film festival. Simran has kindly allowed us to reproduce a transcript from her talk below: It is my great honour and pleasure to … More Philip French Memorial Lecture 2019: Simran Hans
Le Retour d’un aventurier offers a glimpse into the psyche of a filmmaker concerned with the humour and humanity of his country, Naomi Gessesse writes. … More The return of cowboy culture
Writer-director Larry Cohen asks us to confront an inexplicable monster birthed by middle America, Freddie Johnson writes. … More It’s Alive: a middle American monster
Márta Mészáros’ substantial and important story fleshing out nuances of female and wider interpersonal relations, Savina Petkova writes. … More Intimacy and Adoption
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