Bruce Isaacs analyses the deceptively complex closing scene of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Jim Carey and Kate Winslet.
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This is a thought-provoking, odd, shocking and beautiful movie about feminism, fantasy and film history.
This is not (quite) Downton-Abbey-in-India.
When Warren Beatty began his acting career in the 1950s, the idea of homosexual men at the centre of a cinematic story could not be countenanced. Moonlight still shows us lives generally absent from film screens.
The Lego Batman Movie is a worldwide box office smash – but have the filmmakers delved too much into the character’s more ‘toxic’ elements?
There were red faces all round after the wrong film was given the award for Best Picture. But stranger things have happened.
It is difficult not to see the film as a vanity project for Wahlberg.
The overwhelming politicism of this year’s awards have been overtaken by the Best Picture slip up.
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
Their critiques may be more gentle, their attacks more circumspect – but they are resonant nonetheless. And when filmmakers like Farhadi confront Trump, they’re on familiar turf: They’ve seen his type back home.
Zoolander 2, anyone?
There are five very good films nominated for the Best Picture gong and one extraordinary one.
Another article about the politics of La La Land? This time it’s personal.
Warhol has become one of the most well known artists in the world, but his work still has secrets to reveal.
Until La La Land can star two actors of colour or two women in the leading roles, Hollywood will have a diversity problem.
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
Ultimately the controversy over the casting of Matt Damon as a “white saviour” in The Great Wall is baseless, as the film falls flat in other ways.
After Fifty Shades of Grey there was debate about its romanticisation of an abusive relationship. The sequel confirms that this wasn’t a misconception.
There is a growing mainstream appetite for things that would previously be considered “deviant” pursuits – and businesses are catching on.
The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.
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