In praise of Hausu, the world’s most demented haunted house film
The Evil Dead meets Yellow Submarine in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House, an eye-poppingly hyper-real old-dark-house movie that resembles a haunted pop-up book.
Tamsin Cleary
Wednesday 22 July 2020
For our October 2005 issue, Roger Clarke visited Studio Ghibli and found traces of Miyazaki’s trade unionism among the merchandise.
Roger Clarke
Tuesday 21 July 2020
How we animated Luis Buñuel – The making of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Salvador Simó shares designs and stories from the production of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, his animated recreation of the making of Luis Buñuel’s landmark documentary Land without Bread.
Kambole Campbell
Tuesday 21 July 2020
Da 5 Bloods review: Spike Lee brings the Vietnam War home
Lee’s bravura, brakeneck war drama follows the blood line of America’s racial wrongs, from the Civil Rights era to Black Lives Matter, writes Kaleem Aftab.
Kaleem Aftab
Monday 20 July 2020
Where to begin with Atom Egoyan
Your next obsession: the puzzlebox narratives of Atom Egoyan
Josh Slater-Williams
Monday 20 July 2020
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles review: a rudimentary animated making-of
Salvador Simó’s concise animation walks us through the creative crisis behind Luis Buñuel’s first solo film (and only documentary), Land Without Bread, without many creative leaps of its own, finds Greg de Cuir, Jr.
Greg de Cuir Jr
Monday 20 July 2020
Mothers, lovers and others: films by Black British female directors (for Who We Are.)
For the October 1989 Monthly Film Bulletin, Karen Alexander traces the wayward paths leading to new films by four Black British women directors – Martina Attille, Maureen Blackwood, Gurinder Chadha and Ngozi Onwurah.
Karen Alexander
Saturday 18 July 2020
Who We Are – Five minutes with Caleb Femi
Caleb Femi, poet, filmmaker and former Young People’s Laureate for London, tells us about his formative cinematic experiences and his hopes for his new short film about PTSD.
Friday 17 July 2020
“We have to study you in order to survive”: Horace Ové on Black and white Britain (for Who We Are.)
In the December 1987 issue of the Monthly Film Bulletin, the director of the UK’s first Black feature film tells Sylvia Paskin what he’s learnt about living and making films in the UK.
Sylvia Paskin
Friday 17 July 2020
Clemency review: death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden
Chinonye Chukwu’s spare, unsparing prison drama cuts to the heart of the injustice and inhumanity of America’s death penalty, writes Nikki Baughan.
Nikki Baughan
Friday 17 July 2020
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