memory

Lost love remembered, ghosts of the living and the dead, bygone cinema

Reviews:

• Tabu: Wrong love and cinema of the past
• Keyhole: Guy Maddin returns with Greek myths and black and white ghosts

Articles:

• After Life and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Cinema of Memory
• The Treachery of Memory and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
• Christopher Nolan Is a Big Fat Liar
• Freeze Frames and Stasis in La jetée

Interview:

• Guy Maddin on Keyhole
• Christian Petzold on Barbara: Remembering communist East Germany

Alter Ego

• Will Wiles is Martin Blank in Grosse Pointe Blank

Comic Strip Review:

• M.R. James’s Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)

Podcast:

• Philosophy, Murder and Forgotten TV series: Alex Fitch talks to film critic and historian Kim Newman about The Edgar Wallace Mysteries, a series of British B movies made in the 1960s and subsequently rebranded as a TV series, based on novels by the co-creator of King Kong. Plus: in a Q&A recorded at the Raindance Film Festival last year, Alex talks to director M.A. Littler about his documentary The Kingdom of Survival, a road movie that explores the current state of scepticism and philosophy in modern America and features interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Kanaan and Joe Bageant.

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Illustration by Alex Fitch