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Nov 4, 2025
Laura Mulvey, the filmmaker and feminist theorist, once explained that when she took up her first teaching position, at Bulmershe College, Reading in the late Seventies, she was...
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Oct 31, 2025
During a four or five-year period at the turn of the millennium, I went to the cinema around six hundred times – or, I should say, I saw around six hundred films at the...
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Oct 13, 2025
The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any performance, but it’s compounded by...
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Oct 10, 2025
The Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, came to attention via an unusual route – as a screenwriter. There...
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Oct 9, 2025
Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, is built around doubles. It takes place in 1932, and there’s a strong feeling that “unfinished business” from the...
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Sep 8, 2025
A pair of new films, directed by filmmakers from Brooklyn, reflects the resilience of the noir-ish New York crime thriller – the genre of The Naked...
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Aug 25, 2025
Ari Aster, who gave the horror film a new jolt of macabre energy in Hereditary (2017) and Midsommar (2019), both concerned in part with the nightmare – or...
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Jun 30, 2025
Geoff Dyer is the author of twenty-one books which together, and often individually, elude classification. Eclectic in theme, his body of work ranges across genres and forms. It...
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Feb 10, 2025
Dylan hasn’t always been a legend. Or at least not consistently. Joan Baez, in her poison-pen love-letter ‘Diamonds and Rust’, sang that he burst on the scene...
Nov 4, 2025Laura Mulvey, the filmmaker and feminist theorist, once explained that when she took up her first teaching position, at Bulmershe College, Reading in the late Seventies, she was...
Oct 31, 2025During a four or five-year period at the turn of the millennium, I went to the cinema around six hundred times – or, I should say, I saw around six hundred films at the...
Oct 13, 2025The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any performance, but it’s compounded by...
Oct 10, 2025The Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, came to attention via an unusual route – as a screenwriter. There...
Oct 9, 2025Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, is built around doubles. It takes place in 1932, and there’s a strong feeling that “unfinished business” from the...
Sep 8, 2025A pair of new films, directed by filmmakers from Brooklyn, reflects the resilience of the noir-ish New York crime thriller – the genre of The Naked...
Aug 25, 2025Ari Aster, who gave the horror film a new jolt of macabre energy in Hereditary (2017) and Midsommar (2019), both concerned in part with the nightmare – or...
Jun 30, 2025Geoff Dyer is the author of twenty-one books which together, and often individually, elude classification. Eclectic in theme, his body of work ranges across genres and forms. It...
Feb 10, 2025Dylan hasn’t always been a legend. Or at least not consistently. Joan Baez, in her poison-pen love-letter ‘Diamonds and Rust’, sang that he burst on the scene...