In light of the reflective time of the awards season for film, Yasmeena Sulaiman looks at how even though the BAFTA awards have not always been an indicator of how the Oscars will go, the 2023 Academy Awards is different. Mar 19, 2023
Looking back to a conversation between two characters in Jean Luc Godard’s Vivre sa Vie (1962), Weiyi Wang interrogates the camera’s relationship to the emotionality within the sequence. Mar 19, 2023
Michaela Flaherty is catapulted back into her teenage years as she reviews Disney Pixar’s fantastical take on the coming-of-age narrative, Turning Red. Mar 19, 2023
Looking at Takahata Isao’s animated film Only Yesterday, Katherine Heller discusses its portrayal of childhood and nostalgia and how we can connect with one another through such memories. Mar 19, 2023
How does one discuss, and remember, a film that resists both discussion and memory? Rhys Monaghan unfolds the layers and lands of time that confound in Mark Jenkin’s latest feature, Enys Men. Mar 19, 2023
Wifak Gueddana looks at Wong Kar Wai’s classic Chungking Express and how it explores the fractured memories of the heartbroken by narratively and technically playing with time, space, and narration. Mar 19, 2023
In Park Chan Wook’s Oldboy, memory seems to be a way of navigating a mystifying present. Ethan Radus argues that in remembering something we do not transport ourselves into a fixed history so much as we begin to reckon with our present day lives. Mar 19, 2023
In this welcomed analysis of a TV series, Aisling McDonagh explores the relationship between mourning and memory in After Life (2019-2022), a show that delights in the occasional proximity of laughter and pain. Mar 19, 2023
James Cameron’s overwhelmingly blue sequel recently burst onto the big screen, but can it measure up to its predecessor, which continues to hold the record for the highest grossing film of all time? Flora Stokes isn’t so sure… Mar 19, 2023
Lim Kai Tjoon analyses how in Hiroshima, Mon Amour, the past is not always an inaccessible aspect of our lives but an embodied experience in the present. Mar 19, 2023
By walking us back in time with films from The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) to Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Lesley Finn reminds us of the power of film and family and how those closest to us can inspire a deep fondness for cinema. Mar 19, 2023
In their short film Fuori Programma, PhD student Irene Ros looks at the collective memory of Italian right-wing political violence (1969-1980) through interviews with Italian women who were young adults at the time. Mar 19, 2023
Returning to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a divisive love letter to Old Hollywood, Grace LaNasa unpacks the nostalgia and fondness the director imbues in his film through the reimaging of reality and a glamorisation of the past. Mar 19, 2023
The Phantom Lover is a melodrama between Danping Song (Leslie Cheung) and Yunyan Du (Jacqueline Wu). Nov 7, 2022
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) was an offbeat horror film. Nov 7, 2022
Coco (2017) offers the illusion of a link between the real world and the return of dead souls, through the memories and thoughts of the living, personified in photographs, which the souls are able to return to on the annual El Día de los Muertos. Nov 7, 2022
The Addams Family is a black humour films with a fun, playful and macabre tone. Its idea can be traced back to Charles Addams comic and the adaptation of cartoon in TV featuring the life of gothic family from 1912 to 1988 when its ideas of weird but funny monster …
In an era of media dominated by the sequel and reboots, no one was surprised to see that the horror icon Michael Myers was coming back to the big screen. Hollywood’s attempts at revitalising a franchise appear to have one question in common: how is what we—the modern audience—think and …
Directed by Henry Selick, Coraline (2009) is a stop-motion animated film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name, featuring a gothic-style horror and adventurous story of our leading little girl Coraline. Her name, differing from a much more common name “Caroline”, clearly grants her a discernable scent of …
After 28 years, Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice has once again been adapted for theatrical release. With Rice’s passing, her son’s involvement in the production, actors of color in the lead roles, this artwork has once again evoked the imagination of audiences. Nov 7, 2022
Julia Ducournau’s 2021 horror-drama fuses the scaffold of horror with shifting senses of gender, belonging, the body, sex, and technology. The product is a redefinition of the genre in which the object of fear isn’t what threatens to harm our bodies but the body itself. Nov 7, 2022
