In 1983, Bill Forsyth quietly made history when he wrote and directed Local Hero, his quaint and charming comedy about an outsider being stranded on a remote Scottish island, and forced to cavort with the eccentric local residents who may not have had ill-intentions, but certainly didn’t always mean as well as they seemed to…

Charles Burnett is one of the most important artists to ever work in the medium of film, yet so many people struggle to recognize the name. Without his groundbreaking work, we’d not have developed the strong independent film industry that has allowed so many exciting young filmmakers to have their voices heard. As both a…

Somewhere in working-class Belgium, in the middle of a barren harbour, an unknown man stumbles through the evening – no one knows who he is, or where he is from. All they do know is that he carries many secrets, so over the course of the evening, a variety of characters try and penetrate the…

The teenage years are a challenge for many of us – it’s tough enough to try and fit in during a period of such physical and mental change. We start to see the world differently, and we learn that the follies of childhood are certainly not something that we can hold onto forever. What makes…

When he isn’t making groundbreaking, subversive cinematic masterpieces, Spike Lee can usually be found sitting court-side at any of the seasonal games of his beloved New York Knicks. One of the most visible fans of the basketball team, the esteemed director has made his love of the sport known throughout his career, being an evergreen…

Undine is the kind of film that becomes more meaningful after having seen it. Christian Petzold is an undeniably gifted filmmaker, but his brand of hyper-intelligent cultural critiques often work better once the viewer has had some time to digest the work and come to terms with its innumerable themes on our own time. The…

Any cursory analysis of classic Japanese cinema will return a number of great filmmakers, but most notably consist of four names of artists who almost single-handedly defined the filmmaking landscape for most of the twentieth century, despite them coming from slightly different generations for the most part. They are Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu…

Somewhere in the coastal town of Biarritz sits a hotel – in it resides Gilles (Patrick Dewaere), the son of the owner of the establishment, and a young man who has just returned from a trip to New York City. One evening, he is almost run over by a passing motorist, who turns out to…

One of the main areas in studying queer history is to obviously look into the past, and see how certain events shaped national and global perceptions of issues relating to the LGBTQIA+ community. One of the most significant moments came in 1901, in what is referred to as the Dance of the Forty-One, where a…

Once you’ve been a working actor for nearly forty years, you tend to learn a few things about how Hollywood works, especially if you’ve been an insider into the industry. Very few exemplify the concept of hard work quite as much as Robin Wright, an actress who has seen every side of the industry, and…