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In ‘The Oval Portrait,’ Edgar Allan Poe writes of the discovery of a haunted painting in an,old château. The fable goes that its author worked ceaselessly to portray his beloved as realistically as possible, working day and night to…

What, in cinematic terms, makes divinity palpable? In a 2016 reappraisal of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Sight & Sound’s Geoff Andrew considered Orson Welles’ infamous dictum that the only things…

“… you have a lot of confidence that come off a little arrogant even though you’re humble.But it be important to remember that the giant looks in the mirror and sees nothing." Donda West The task I’ve been assigned, quite clearly, is…

Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta has had a tumultuous release schedule, his latest since 2016’s thrilling Elle (starring Isabelle Huppert). Due to have premiered at Cannes 2019, it was postponed by a year to account for its director’s illness…

A debut is a dangerous thing. More than ever, it seems we’re looking for the next best thing: the Great Cinematic Prodigy par excellence. But the last we saw of Xavier Dolan was a cameo in the opening scene of It: Chapter Two. Before that,…

“May the ballroom remain eternal…” The Caretaker was one of several monikered projects by UK artist Leyland James Kirby. If we take him at his word, it ended in 2019 with the release of the final stage of his masterpiece Everywhere At The…

After a tumultuous couple of years, reality has done well in catching up with the bleak speculative-tech fictions of Black Mirror and Weird City. Not that we’ve seen the end of this ilk of dystopian fiction on our screens, but it does seem…

Political filmmaking is a rich catalogue in the history of German cinema. As far back as the Weimar era, political concerns find a revolutionary outlet in the Expressionist masterpieces of filmmakers like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. In Nazi…

The AmErican Dream has had a busy year. Alongside a smashing fifth iteration of Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show, Bad Trip marks the surrealist’s second effort for Netflix, after his arduous stand-up special Legalize Everything. For the…