Cinema Year Zero

London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony | Pagans 30.01.2021 10:08 ↓

Ben Flanagan looks back on the apex of British cuddliness.

Elephant | Pagans 30.01.2021 8:13 ↓

Tom Atkinson laments the lost vision of Alan Clarke.

Gothic | Pagans 30.01.2021 12:51 ↓

Kirsty Asher declares Ken Russell to be the last British folk hero.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People | Pagans 30.01.2021 11:47 ↓

Cathy Brennan asserts just how it was that Toby Young and Julie Burchill lost friends and alienated people.

Sense and Sensibility | Pagans 30.01.2021 10:39 ↓

Laura Venning examines what her enjoyment of the period drama means.

Volume 5: Pagans 30.01.2021 6:24 ↓

An introduction to volume 5: Pagans.

The Nest | Pagans 30.01.2021 9:03 ↓

Joseph Owen traces the genealogy of the yuppie.

Goodbye to Language | Dogme Year Zero 23.12.2020 9:13 ↓

Tom Atkinson on a Cannes experiment.

#mydreampalace | Dogme Year Zero 23.12.2020 5:08 ↓

Cathy Brennan on the cinema institutions that have failed workers in the pandemic.

Tenet | Dogme Year Zero 23.12.2020 11:14 ↓

Kirsty Asher on cinema's blue chip art.

Uppercase Print | Dogme Year Zero 23.12.2020 6:24 ↓

Ben Flanagan on the last in-person festival before the pandemic struck: Berlinale.

Night Hunter | Lang 14.11.2020 12:27 ↓

Fedor Tot investigates why Fritz Lang's moral ambiguity influenced so many, but could be skilfully deployed by so few.

The Indian Epic | Lang 14.11.2020 10:40 ↓

Ben Flanagan breaks down Fritz Lang's Abbey Road : the large-scale political quagmire of the two-part film The Indian Epic .

Drug War | Lang 14.11.2020 8:51 ↓

Tom Atkinson finds the Lang in one of the German auteur's most prolific spiritual descendants: Johnnie To.

The Lineup | Lang 14.11.2020 8:42 ↓

Patrick Preziosi finds Lang's immediate influence in two 1950s Columbia noir films: Don Siegel's The Lineup and Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper .

M | Lang 14.11.2020 7:16 ↓

Joseph Owen finds only despair and prison anxiety in the works of William Faulkner and serial killer thriller M .

Metropolis | Lang 14.11.2020 8:41 ↓

Katie Hogan asks whether the woman-as-robot character in fiction can only be in the image of the Maria-bot in Metropolis .

The Wolf of Wall Street | Lang 14.11.2020 12:22 ↓

Cathy Brennan finds that Dr Mabuse and The Wolf of Wall Street 's Jordan Belfort have a lot in common.

Harakiri | Lang 14.11.2020 9:38 ↓

Serena Scateni pulls out the imperialist practices afoot in Lang's 1919 Madame Butterfly adaptation, Harakiri .

Volume 3: In the Shadow of Lang 14.11.2020 7:06 ↓

An introduction to our third volume, In the Shadow of Lang.

Nanook of the North | Sus 25.08.2020 8:25 ↓

Joseph Owen examines the power of knowledge and perception in Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North .

Dreams of a Life | Sus 25.08.2020 9:56 ↓

The public perception of a dead woman is challenged in Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life , as Orla Smith writes.

The Mind of Jake Paul | Sus 25.08.2020 8:41 ↓

Cathy Brennan documents her fragmented thoughts and frustrations working her way through the filmography of corrupt YouTube auteur Shane Dawson.

The Viewing Booth | Sus 25.08.2020 7:35 ↓

Two new festival hits - Me and the Cult Leader and The Viewing Booth - are investigated by Cat Mahmoud for what they can teach us about how we receive and regurgitate images.

Arboretum Cycle | Sus 25.08.2020 10:00 ↓

Maximilien Luc Proctor finds valuable documentary insight in the experimental films of Nathaniel Dorsky, Teo Hernandez, and James Benning.