Author Archives: Bolaji O

During this year’s Locarno Film Festival (3-13 August), in Switzerland, Celluloid Junkie caught up with Kevin B. Lee, Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Lugano’s Università della Svizzera Italiana. We met the lecturer and video … Continued

The 1951 film-noir Peking Express (not to be confused with Shanghai Express) should be seen as Hollywood’s first attempt to deal with Communist China in the context of the Red Scare. Source: ‘Peking Express’ Is Hollywood’s First Encounter with Red … Continued

From Entebbe’s palm-poked sandy beaches to the traffic-clogged streets of capital city Kampala, movie theatres in Uganda, operated by Century Cinemax, are flooding with customers again. At Acacia Mall in the capital, moviegoers queue outside the cinema for tickets, contributing … Continued

Plans are underway across Russian cinemas to show high-quality pirated copies of the much anticipated “Avatar: The Way of Water,” a blatantly illegal move that would be a point of new departure for the exhibition sector in the country. Source: … Continued

In its exploration of themes like paranoia, voyeurism, and loneliness, Hitchcock’s Rear Window strikes a familiar chord with the social media climate we live in today. Source: Why Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ Mirrors Today’s Social Media Age

Chinese filmmakers Hu Sang and Xiaoning Feng go to great pains to conflate China and Tibet as simpatico cultures unified against the West in these samples of Chinese Cinema filmed through a Communist lens. Source: Chinese Cinema Through a Communist … Continued