and other fun things I’ve heard at the festival

Two bold Fringe shows explore female desire, unsuitable men, obsession and self-acceptance in Homecumming and Creep.

What I've seen so far at the Fringe

On Mother Mary (David Lowery, 2026)

Reflections on Athens, The Summer with Carmen, and Shirley Valentine

On Maggie Gyllenhall’s The Bride! and being allowed to make ‘bad’ films

On Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

On pornography, clothing, and the body

On political melodrama in Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace (1994)

Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.Thi…

The screening on Saturday 6th December, 17:30 will have an introduction from Dr Sarah Artt. Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films (excluding Safe + Discussion & Stronger Than Love: ...

On Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

On fuck boy lotharios and longing in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)

The screening on Monday 3rd November, 20:15 will have an introduction from Dr Sarah Artt. Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films (excluding Safe + Discussion & Stronger Than Love: ¡T...

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

On Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)

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On the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50

As we prepare for our Living Frankenstein event, Dr Sarah Artt explores cinema’s enduring fascination with sexually threatening female cyborgs.

Flash Gordon, All We Imagine as Light, A Room with a View, and Amadeus

Everyone should see Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)

On the precarious glamour of Eva (Joseph Losey, 1962)

On the Cult of Lana Del Rey

On The Ugly Stepsister/Den stygge stesøsteren (Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt, 2025)

On Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform and lending clothes

On Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

On liberation

On the stuff you watch when you don't want to watch

Body, Genre, Apparatus: Re-reading Linda Williams on Pornography. Volume 11, Issue 2 of Porn Studies

On watching Anora (2024), drawing strippers, and being a client

Former top Trump adviser Steve Bannon denies making Nazi salute at CPAC and says Jordan Bardella is "unworthy to lead France".

In an 8-plus-minute video, Schafer connected the passport to “historical rises of fascism and everything this new administration represents.”

On Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (Tony Randel, 1988)

On Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)