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oliverjlwebb
Aug 11, 202211 min read
An Interview with screenwriter Olivia Hetreed
Olivia Hetreed is a screenwriter and editor known for Girl with a Pearl Earring, Wuthering Heights, Birds Like Us and Mrs Harris Goes to...
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oliverjlwebb
Jul 29, 20228 min read
An Interview with Adria Tennor
Adria Tennor is an actor, writer and director known for Mad Men, The Artist, Mad Dogs, and One Moment. Alongside Kristen Tracy she is...
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Alex Harper
Jul 14, 20224 min read
Film of the Week: Beau Travail
As Claire Denis’ two new films await release, we look back at Beau Travail, her blistering post-colonialist deconstruction of masculininity.
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oliverjlwebb
Jul 14, 202210 min read
An Interview with E. Max Frye
E. Max Frye is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director known for Something Wild, The Alienist, Where the Money Is, and...
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oliverjlwebb
Jun 14, 20223 min read
An Interview with Bill Kelly
Bill Kelly is an actor known for his work on Bloodline, The Banker and Hillbilly Elegy. I spoke with Bill about landing his first role,...
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Alex Harper
Jun 3, 20224 min read
Film of the Week: Men
Director Alex Garland and star Jessie Buckley call out the #NotAllRoryKinnears argument in this divisive, gnarly, feminist folk horror.
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Alex Harper
May 13, 20223 min read
Film of the Week: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and it’s a surprising trip in Jane Schoenbrun’s horror-drama on gender dysphoria and online subculture.
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Alex Harper
Apr 30, 20223 min read
Film of the Week: Happening
The “quiet one” of French independent cinema’s 2021 surge, Audrey Diwan’s Happening is harrowing, important, and deserving of more fanfare.
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oliverjlwebb
Apr 28, 20228 min read
An Interview with Dedee Pfeiffer
Dedee Pfeiffer is an actor known for her work on Vamp, Cybill, Falling Down, and Frankie and Johnny. She currently stars as Denise on Big...
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oliverjlwebb
Apr 13, 20227 min read
An Interview with Cynda Williams
Cynda Williams is an actor known for her work on One False Move, Mo’ Better Blues, Tales of The City, and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge....
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oliverjlwebb
Mar 31, 20226 min read
An Interview with editor Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Carole is an editor known for her work on acclaimed films and series such as The Morning Show, Ghost World and The Affair. She has...
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oliverjlwebb
Mar 29, 20224 min read
90s rock And Black Eyeshadow: The Genius of Pattinson's Batman
By Danielle Momoh I have always been unable to take the concept of Batman seriously. It was not the fact that Batman’s superpowers are...
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Alex Harper
Mar 6, 20223 min read
Film of the Week: Petrov’s Flu
In light of world events, we look at Kirill Serebrennikov’s anti-Kremlin Russian parable—where a flu epidemic wrecks havoc on Yekaterinburg.
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oliverjlwebb
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Actor Jamie Robson on The British Weird Wave
You're accredited with helping spearhead a film movement that’s been labelled 'The British Weird Wave.' Could you tell me more about it...
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oliverjlwebb
Feb 27, 20223 min read
Suspiria (1977): A fever you don't want to sweat out
By Danielle Momoh Two girls tread water in a pool, one whispering strange revelations to the other. We view them from overhead, the...
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oliverjlwebb
Feb 11, 20225 min read
An Interview with Neraida Bega
Neraida Bega is an actor and mocap actor known for her work on WandaVision, American Bred, APEX Legends, and the upcoming film Dog. I...
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Alex Harper
Feb 10, 20223 min read
Film of the Week: Flee
An Afghan refugee’s story of how he arrived alone in Denmark aged 15 is told in Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s powerful animated documentary.
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oliverjlwebb
Feb 3, 20225 min read
An Interview with Lotte Munk
Lotte Munk is an actor known for The Idiots, The Bridge and The Killing. I spoke with Lotte about training at the Drama School at Aarhus...
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oliverjlwebb
Jan 27, 20227 min read
Director Julian Schwandner on his short film, Anamesa
Anamesa is an atmospheric representation of the connection the three friends Maria, Markos and Julian share with the same island in...
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oliverjlwebb
Jan 22, 20225 min read
The Matrix Resurrections—A Failed Blade Runner 2049?
By Evelio Zavala What made The Matrix trilogy work is why The Matrix Resurrections fails: timing. In 1999, it was the turn of a new...
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