“A time of apparent magic” - epigraph to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

I saw two films at the cinema this week: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which I enjoyed, and Robert Bresson’s L’Argent. I was originally going to write something about The Odyssey, but seeing L’Arge...

In his book Camera Lucida, written after the death of his mother, Roland Barthes talks about what it means to look at a photograph of someone who has died:

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This is the first in an occasional series, ‘Underseen’, which looks at films that aren’t easily available or on physical media.

If you put Paul Thomas Anderson’s films alongside each other you’d have a shadow history of California.

March 30th, 1992: The 64th Oscars ceremony is underway in Los Angeles.

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Hamnet is impeccably tasteful, the interiors exquisitely and naturally lit and the exteriors strikingly framed, but this tastefulness grows wearying, even stultifying.

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If you put Paul Thomas Anderson’s films alongside each other you’d have a shadow history of California.

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The woman who wrote Beowulf considered it juvenilia. She composed it during the years she roamed close to the old hall, hearing the revelry, watching the fighting and fucking from the slippery dark ou...

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The best 20th-century American novels, from Edith Wharton to Toni Morrison and recommended by critic and novelist David Hering