Van Gogh Alive – the touring exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous paintings – has recently arrived in Edinburgh. What sets the exhibition apart from others is that, instead of displaying the artist’s work framed and on a wall, Van Gogh Alive projects them onto huge screens. Apr 15, 2022
Last weekend, the fourth edition of the Youth Film Access Festival took place in Glasgow. The festival focuses on young people aged 14-25 by not only providing a platform for aspiring filmmakers to showcase their films but also, to network with industry professionals and be exposed to a variety of …
As an audience member at the 2022 Glasgow Film Festival, one of the most pleasurable parts of the festival was to feel its atmosphere. Being present means that you are wrapped up in a series of rituals, events, screenings, and atmospheres. Apr 15, 2022
Glasgow Film Festival’s motto is ‘cinema for all’. What I enjoyed about the festival was that this ‘all’ included volunteers. This year, the festival ran from the 2nd-12th of March and I volunteered during four of the days. Apr 15, 2022
格拉斯哥电影节的经历对我来说是很多个第一次组成的：第一次在一天内参加一共五个放映和讲座；第一次参加电影行业的networking；第一次带着行李箱看电影。这些经历如此的新奇和兴奋，以至于肉体上的疲惫都被大脑自动忽略。 This year, my experience at Glasgow Film Festival was made up of many personal firsts: the first time I attended a total of five screenings and lectures in one day; the first time I attended a film industry networking event; the first time I took my suitcase to a …
The opening scene of The Batman (2022) shares a point of view with the villain spying on his victim. Paul Dano’s Riddler announces his presence behind the binocular lens aurally; his heavy breathing is accompanied by the soundtrack of Ave Maria and the background noise of Gotham City. After observing …
‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. ‘ – Albert Camus Death is a subject that human beings steer clear of in the majority of societies. In English culture, people refer to a dead person as a departed person, while in Chinese tradition the word …
Stage Door （1937）In 1936, RKO Pictures acquired the film rights to Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s play Stage Door. They, quite rightly, believed that this story of life in an all-female theatrical boarding-house would be a good vehicle to show off the talents of some of the young actresses …
Like many movie-goers, a good trailer can inspire me to part with my hard-earned money. The trailer for The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier) doesn’t quite do justice to how serious and emotive the film can get. Apr 15, 2022
“When you are observing me, who do you think I am observing?” Directed by Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) is a careful and elaborate portrait of the “female gaze” and femininity from a perspective of a female director. The film begins with a young French painter …
To analyse anything, especially as academics or critics, we invent labels and categories, we build vocabularies about our topic and around it. Often, this is useful, since it offers us tools for examination, and naming and defining something can make it easier to notice and hold up to the light. It …
由精神分析学中的偷窥理论看希区柯克电影中的偷窥文化 Hitchcock and his unique style have occupied an important place in the history of Hollywood films and even the history of the world cinema at large Apr 15, 2022
Upon her death in March 2019, Agnes Varda was lauded not only for her importance as a filmmaker but also for her feminism, cinematically investigating any situation in which she found gender injustice. Her authorial voice highlighted the unique inner lives of women, with her varied protagonists worrying about impending …
Tokyo Story (dir. Yasujirō Ozu, 1953), a phenomenal film with a simple story framed by Japanese minimalism, tells the story of Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama, a retired couple from Onomichi, south-west Japan, who decide to travel to visit their children in Tokyo. Apr 15, 2022
This issue’s theme, The Gaze, can lead to a strong binary association in our minds – the gaze, as a concept, is in large majority discussed as either male or female. Another universally available connotation with the term is its dependence on the visual. The Gaze, naturally, has to do …
