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As another year’s European Film Market winds down, I have completed my annual round-up of what I saw, heard, and read.
A major reason I attend these events is to listen to what people talk about, what they ignore, and how they frame the industry. The key things ...
Over the years I have been asked why I don’t have a YouTube channel, especially given the cinematic nature of the things I study.
The honest answer is just time.
But over the past few months I have been quietly beavering away, building up a bank of videos which bring some of my past data studies to life in a fun way.
I’ll be uploading new video essays eve...
Next Thursday, I shall be joining many in the film community in wintry Berlin for the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market.
(If you’re going to be in Berlin too,
I think we all suspect that if a distributor is preventing critics from reviewing a movie, it’s not because they’re so pleased with how good it is that they want to make sure the critics really enjoy the anticipation of seeing it.
No, it’s because the movie stinks. And they know it. And they don’t want the rest of us to know it until a few minutes after the movie starts...
If you ask most people about Darren Aronofsky's drug-fuelled mad 2000 classic movie Requiem for a Dream, they will say the same thing:
Wow, such a great movie. I’m never w...