By Sara Bright So, the October film lists are out. The usual glossy round-ups of what we’re supposed to be watching. And you look at…
There is a moment in Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en Rose (2007) when Marion Cotillard, as the aged Edith Piaf, sits hunched in a chair…
By Maria Bregman For decades, the currency of a film festival has been the rectangle. The shape of the screen, the dimensions of the poster,…
By Maria Bregman Every October, the machinery of the BFI London Film Festival whirs into life. There are the gala screenings, the red carpets, the…
By Sara Bright There is a change in the air as October settles in. The days shorten, the light thins, and our attention naturally turns…
By Sara Bright There are evenings when the weight of the world demands a specific kind of antidote. Not high art, not challenging drama, but…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of digital artifact that speaks volumes about the current state of a celebrity’s career. It’s the eleven-fingered…
By Sara Bright There’s a chaotic energy thrumming through Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a relentless, almost gleeful, unspooling of American anxieties. It is…
An awards show red carpet is rarely about the clothes alone. It is a text, written in silk and satin, jewels and jawlines. It is…
When Bram Stoker first unleashed Count Dracula upon the world in 1897, his epistolary novel was designed to terrify Victorian readers with its undercurrents of…