Rebekka O’Grady, making her Double Negative debut, on the importance of making room for Cinema’s gems… For many, the words animated film, despite increasingly sophisticated examples to the contrary, continue to conjure up...
Alison Cornmell puts in her scrunchies and digs out those fingerless gloves for an evening spent in the company of the Brat Pack… The 80s – the decade that style forgot; when hair...
Liverpool filmmaker DW Mault on the importance of time and space to breath in modern-day cinema… The codes of commercial cinema have become so ossified, offering so much less scope for interpretative pleasure...
When Picture House At FACT announced Into The Abyss would be followed by a Q&A with its director Werner Herzog, we had to fight volunteers off with a stick. Sarah Creed won out… ...
Natalie Pearson looks at films playing into our fears for the future, robo-style… The FACT and body>data>space co-curated Robots and Avatars exhibition taps into our ideas of advancing robotic technologies, and how we may...
Nik Glover on the fine line between horror and tragedy tread by Tod Browning with his film, Freaks… In his 1932, pre-code ‘horror’ Freaks, Tod Browning made the then shocking decision to cast...
Werner Herzog fans could do worse than getting down to FACT tonight for his latest film followed by a satellite Q&A… In the vanguard of the New German Cinema which came to the...
Filmmaker DW Mault talks exclusively to Laura Brown about his adaptation of Cold Water and how he’s tired of waiting… There’s a silence associated with waiting. A pause, a ticking clock, the sounds...
Rachael Jones heads down to China Town for a bit of Reel Unknown fun – just don’t expect them, or her, to squeal… We’ve always been well jel of London’s Secret Cinema events,...