Sinning & Winning: The Best of the BFI London Film Festival 2024
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We once again journeyed into the heart of The Big Smoke's biggest film festival in search of glitz, glamour, saints, and sinners.
Harry Bayley
Oct 5
Rehearsals for Retirement: Gestures and Alchemy in GTA
Phil Solomon's found footage films look away from the violence of Grand Theft Auto to find stillness, melancholy, and grief.
The Big Ship
Sep 8
Little Prayers Gallery - September 7, 2024
Welcome to Little Prayers, the self-destructing gallery. Here for a good time not a long time. This week, we attend halo-headed parties.
Caleb Carter
Aug 8
The Dandy & Dionysus
Art is the Pagan snag on England's tapestry. Ransack the house.
Silvia Jamet
Jul 10
Joan of Arc: Righteous Fury, Holy Suffering
Art about Joan of Arc allows us to recontextualise faith and find a new grammar for martyrdom and womanhood.
Bryson Edward Howe
Jan 23
Negating the Canvas: A Conversation with Mark Leckey
"It's like you deny the existence of God in order to affirm God, right? I deny the existence of art in order to make art."
The Big Ship
Oct 4, 2023
Faces & Fear: The Best of the BFI London Film Festival 2023
Repression's shadow dances in the frame, while complicity unveils the hidden truths of empathy. Cinema's back, baby.
The Big Ship
Sep 20, 2023
Mark Leckey: All That Glitters is Gold
What is in the depths of your Snapchat memories? Some funny, forgotten video from a drunken night out? Or the key to transcendence?
Samuel Bilcliff
Jun 24, 2023
Pain in Pastel: Violence in the Worlds of Wes Anderson
"It'll grow back, won't it?" "Tails don't grow back."
Fred Barrett
Jun 16, 2023
Pink Films: A Transgressive History of Hisayasu Satô
Welcome to pinku eiga, the highly transgressive and under-discussed world of filmmaker Hisayasu Satô.
Fred Barrett
Oct 14, 2022
The Canyons: Simulacra
Understanding Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis' prophetic 2013 neo-noir bomb.
Bryson Edward Howe
Sep 24, 2022
Carolee Schneemann: Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Following her new retrospective at the Barbican in London, we look at the art of pleasure in Carolee Schneemann's 'body' of work.
Bryson Edward Howe
Sep 4, 2022
"Camp": Notes on Modernity and Self-Consciousness
What do UFOs, Zack Snyder's Batman, and "Mooo!" by Doja Cat all have in common? They're all perfect examples of "camp".
Caleb Carter
Jul 17, 2022
Beau Travail: Sparta
Claire Denis' masterful mirage puts the colonialist man under the scalpel in a hot, furious ballet.
Bryson Edward Howe
Jul 1, 2022
Crash: Carnal & Chrome
The Daily Mail once wrote that "Crash is the point at which even a liberal society should draw the line." Naturally, it's a masterpiece.
Bryson Edward Howe
Jun 1, 2022
Hoop Dreams: Sport or Art?
The greatest documentary of the last thirty years blurs the lines between sport and art, inspiration and pain, success and failure.
Fred Barrett
May 20, 2022
Bodies and Profit: Demonlover
Where bodies look like money and blood looks like sex.
The Big Ship
May 14, 2022
Gaspar Noé: Into the Light
“Birth is a unique opportunity. Death is an extraordinary experience.”
Rachael Simoes
Mar 4, 2022
Atlantics: Waiting for Catharsis
Atlantics is a Senegalese romantic tragedy that chokes you up with its supernatural love story and satisfies you with haunting revenge.
Bryson Edward Howe
Jan 28, 2022
King of Kings: The Coen Brothers and Ozymandias
Their names are Joel and Ethan. Look on their Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The Big Ship
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