Tom Vickers discusses artistic turbulence. “…two souls, alas, and their division tears my life in two…” So speaks Faust of his pact with the devil, and so begins a unique journey to which the collaborations between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski bears a striking resemblance. Over the course of five films, beginning with Aguirre:...
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Michael Tansini considers the urban spaces in film The city is one of the most filmed spaces in cinema. Their constant expansion is a process that has provided filmmakers with dynamic locations, and potentiality limitless scenarios to be drawn on. However, interwoven with capturing mankind’s development and progress, is the opportunity to preserve or...
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How Hollywood Blockbusters changed during the “Noughties” Michael Tansini outlines emerging and evolving themes in Hollywood. 2010 began with a cultural retrospective of the “Noughties”, with shows detailing the ‘100 most shocking incidents with celebrities and peanut butter’ that featured talking heads you’ve never heard of clogging up BBC3’s viewing schedule. Such lists for films...
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Anya Benson discusses nature’s voice as an  impossible imagining. The representations of nature we are used to in our world – or at least, in our political world – are of something silent and peaceful, isolated from the realities of human lives. It is depicted through gentle forests where we can be ‘alone’, vast...
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Sharon Coleclough derives  meaning from vivid  imaginings of the future. “We are all interested in the future, for that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives” – so speaks Criswell in Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer-Space (1959). Criswell is indeed correct, but what future is a question film...
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Tom Shingler traces the contours of visual  technology. Most of us have been to Alton Towers and visited the 3D cinema which makes the middle of your forehead tingle and ended up leaving less than impressed, but 3D has evolved in a big way. With films like Avatar becoming the biggest grossing film of...
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