The failure of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris has found a new purpose beyond Terrence Dixon’s original artistic intention. In an ironic bid to give him a platform, the righteous white filmmaker pins a black man to the gates of the Bastille. If not for Baldwin’s remarkable ability […]
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Squid Game has taken the headlines of post-Covid television, drawing an audience of almost three times the population of South Korea. In the wake of its success, its creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has confirmed work on the second season of the show saying, “you leave us no choice”, suggestive of a […]
Do not let the name fool you. This is not a film as simple as its title. Possibly depicted is a young transgender and, therefore, is one of a limited corpus of works that is. Today, it was Mubi’s film of the day, and I was excited by the prospect […]
“Your mummy is dead,” her father says, “you know what that means?” This scene and the remaining ninety minutes of the film shows she does not. Play – sliding down the screen of the car – interrupts any concentration on the reality of death. Jacques Doillon’s Ponette (1996) is not […]
Tucked behind the undergrowth and an industrial estate, the platform of Rushey Platt Station clings to a slope. Cuttings and embankments are overrun with trees, blocking sunlight from the path, as cyclists pass through like the steam engine’s decades long shadow. On my walks down the railway path I feel […]