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Bookmark What we can learn from Werner Herzog’s ‘lessons of darkness’ manifesto |…
From dragging steamboats over mountains, to holding Klaus Kinski at gunpoint, Herzog’s career has been guided by a quest for ‘ecstatic truth’, explored in a new exhibition at Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Podcast Cache Atomic Hobo: Interview with director of THREADS, Mick Jackson
I phoned Mick Jackson in LA to discuss THREADS. We also talked about A Guide To Armageddon, and The Day After, plus liquorice and all manner of nuclear horror.

May 26 2021, 9:12am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…
We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

April 23 2020, 9:34am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…
We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

April 23 2020, 2:34am | Comments
Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece
The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments
Bookmark There's Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman - Electric Literature
Rosemary Woodhouse has unwrapped a piece of steak from its waxy brown paper. She cuts it in half and drops it into a hot pan. It sizzles. She flips it. She…

December 20 2019, 12:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her - The New…
NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado. It would be an intimidating laugh if it didn’t come easily, and if it weren’t so…

September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments
Bookmark This wild, AI-generated film is the next step in “whole-movie puppetry” |…
Click here for transcript. Put this link in the video's caption field. Two years ago, Ars Technica hosted the online premiere of a weird short film called Sunspring, which was mostly…

June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments
Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival
In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Most Disturbing Movies of All Time | Complex
Let’s start by setting the record straight: mainstream comedies and dramas are great. In an increasingly complicated and frustrating world, cinema as a form of escapism is a valid move, and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…
To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments
Bookmark The Evil Under The Soil: Burial and Unearthing in Folk Horror -…
Like any other genre of film, television or literature, Folk Horror has its own collection of traits, tropes and tendencies.

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Singularities and Sisyphean Spikes in literature and film Looking for literary/filmic examples of singularities, infinite pits, wormholes, whirlpools, bore holes, large spacetimes in tiny crevices. But also... Peaks too high to navigate, infinite ascents, Sisyphean feats of endurance, energy spikes set to break reality, very tall towers.

July 2 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark Gif Horse — Real Life
An adorable black kitten is sitting on a bookshelf, eyes fixed on an insect. It sits, paws perfectly aligned. Then, out of nowhere, it pounces — leaping off the shelf and…

September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments
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December 20 2015, 7:47am | Comments
Bookmark Before and After Comparisons of the Visual Effects in Mad Max: Fury…
One of the big Hollywood blockbusters to hit the silver screen this year has been Mad Max: Fury Road, which has gotten rave reviews, with many praising the insane and complex…

May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments
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May 16 2015, 10:20am | Comments
Bookmark Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts? – Jeff Zacks –…
Suppose you were sitting at home, relaxing on a sofa with your dog, when suddenly your visual image of the dog gave way to that of a steaming bowl of noodles.…

April 21 2015, 3:07pm | Comments
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April 2 2015, 4:32pm | Comments
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March 8 2015, 1:16pm | Comments
Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…
Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments
Bookmark John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film | Dangerous Minds
As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982. In general they hated it and…

December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments
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October 22 2014, 4:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Linklater: On Cinema and Time – a short film – Aeon Film
A tour through the history of time in cinema, guided by the master Richard Linklater :: kogonada 8 minutes

September 15 2014, 4:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Who Goes There?
Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments
Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED
HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments
YouTube

August 18 2014, 10:54am | Comments
Bookmark Deleuzian Film Analysis: The Skin of the Film
There are film theories, and then there is Deleuze.

July 14 2014, 12:44am | Comments
Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing
The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments
Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation
Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments
foursquare checkin Chris Marker retrospective @ Whitechapel Gallery

June 4 2014, 3:41am | Comments
Bookmark Martin Arnold Animated Gifs
by Nick Briz 2009 - 2011(redux)

May 14 2014, 3:46pm | Comments

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