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Cinema Body Cinema Mind is a home for thinking and feeling our way through film. I explore how movies work on us—not just in our heads, but in our senses, memories, and everyday lives through essays, podcast episodes, and video lectures.
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Becoming a Better Film Critic Session 5: Writing the Self Through Cinema (opens the original)
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Welcome, friends.I’m sure many of you reading this have, like me, occasionally ruminated on the question of how much “you” (i.e. “I”) should be foregrounded in one’s writing. This dilemma cuts across two slightly different yet intersecting concerns. One is the straightforward question of how much of your own life you want to narrate in public. The other is the subtler question of how one cultivates a distinctive self on the page.My reservations about turning everyday life into Substack material
A response to Suddenly Something "Cracked" (opens the original)
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This is a quick piece that I’ve fleshed out on Sunday morning because ’s argument spoke directly to my sense of the shortcutting historiography that gets applied to certain periods of cinema. The shortness of this is something of an outlier (compared to the length of my usual diatribes). But I’m deep in research for Session Five of Becoming a Better Film Critic: Writing Subjectivity Through Cinema - which takes place this Thursday.But Nicolas’ piece got me thinking as to w
“I belong to cinema” (opens the original)
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Welcome friends.I went to a screening at the ICA last week as part of their Off-Circuit series. This is for a certain breed of film that has had festival outings but failed to gain wider distribution. Failed is probably the wrong word. More that they do not fit into distributors’ perceptions of what they can package in a way that makes financial sense. Which, of course, is an increasingly narrow set of parameters.Anyway, the film in question was called Pin de Fartie, from Argentinian filmmaker A
Rewinding Cinema, Reviving Cinephilia (w/ critic and writer Marta Djordjevic) (opens the original)
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Welcome friends.One of the many pleasures of hosting conversations about cinema is the way an open, engaging and reflective sensibility between two film lovers can emerge almost instantaneously. I’ve been lucky that the “spirit” of Cinema Body/Cinema Mind has been understood by everyone I’ve spoken to over the past year.One element of the overall project that continues to drive my motivation is a sense of curiosity and a desire to understand how others conceive of their own cinematic subjectivit
The Death of the Robin Hood (opens the original)
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I counted about ten walkouts from the preview screening of The Death of Robin Hood at Picturehouse Central on Wednesday night. It is fundamentally pointless trying to determine why a particular viewer decides that the exit has suddenly become more inviting than another hour sitting in a black box, immersed in images and sounds they find disagreeable. Still, speculation is difficult to resist, particularly when the film itself seems designed to test whatever assumptions an audience brings into th
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