Alex Cochrane-Dyet investigates the hype around Hollywood’s new franchise, The Hunger Games, and counteracts some of the absurd controversy that has arisen through the film adaptation.
Film
Tree
March 19, 2012
Tom Lavan looks at the exploration of life and the universe in Terrence Malick’s controversial essay on the nature of existence.
Suppression
March 19, 2012
Emma Walker and Ellie Wallis look at the use of film to both assist and inhibit the struggle for independence of oppressed peoples in the modern world.
Lens
August 20, 2011
For many of us students, the idea of watching Captain Jack Sparrow swinging from the mast of his ship in 3D for a mere seven quid at your local cinema sounds far more tempting than paying an extortionate £40 for back-row seats in a West End theatre.
Insider
June 26, 2011
Ellie Wallis and Emma Walker were lucky enough to get a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most glamorous events in the film calendar: the recent Cannes Film Festival. They spoke to Jenny Walker, the founder and principal producer of FRAMES of REFERENCE FILMS, an independent production company that makes feature films, short film projects and documentaries.
Thomas Meerstadt’s Separation from Hollywood
March 11, 2011
American hegemony amongst the film industry is a well known fact. Almost everyone across the globe has seen a Hollywood production and, for the majority of the 20th century, the term Hollywood had more or less become synonymous with the film industry. In fact 85-90% of box-office takings over the last twenty years have been [...]
Ellie Wallis and Emma Walker’s Pursuit of Perfection
March 11, 2011
“I’m not perfect, I’m nothing.” These bleak and fatalistic words encapsulate the struggle for perfection which plagues many of the female characters in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated psychological thriller. The film follows an aspiring ballet dancer, in her preparation for the most important performance of her career. The child-like, naïve Nina must realise the darker, [...]
Gareth Davies on Waste Land
March 11, 2011
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish. We’re all familiar with T.S. Eliot’s magnum opus The Wasteland. But does its message of a planet in decline still resonate with the world we live in now? Yes, says Lucy Walker, and more than ever before. Her new creation, Waste [...]
“…two souls, alas, and their division tears my life in two…” – Tom Vickers
June 17, 2010
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: Wrath [...]
Urbanisation on the Up – Michael Tansini
June 17, 2010
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 re-create [...]
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