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The film’s twin love stories contrast two ways of understanding what tethers us to someone: personal qualities and shared history. Source: https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/agora/2022/01/what-hitchcocks-vertigo-teaches-us-about-love
In a new collection of essays, the author reveals the difficulty of reconciling his belief in multiplicity and ambiguity with a kind of rational absolutism. Source: https://www.newstatesman.com/salman-rushdie-languages-of-truth-review
Right before it became a ridiculous thing to do, I sat in a darkened room with tens of strangers and sobbed, mouth agape, at Pixar’s latest offering, Onward. It seems impossible, now, that ten days before Boris Johnson put the … Continued
Rapman’s poignant film exposes the poverty, inequality and racism that contribute to gang warfare. On Saturday evening, a fight broke out at the Vue cinema at the StarCity complex in north Birmingham. It was claimed that it had started at … Continued
Some claim the streaming platform represents cinema’s slow death march, while others argue the backlash is simply cultural elitism from rigid cinephiles. Source: Is Netflix killing cinema? | New Statesman
Despite proponents like the Dunkirk director, physical film is finding it tough in the modern age. Source: Can celluloid lovers like Christopher Nolan stop a digital-only future for film?