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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
  • The Swimmer: Burt Lancaster in Frank Perry's startling 1968 portrayal of a man coming to terms with his life
  • Extracted: Trapped in someone else’s memories
  • Solaris: Hallucinating the past
  • Cría Cuervos: The end of Spanish childhood
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: Remembering the lives that may have been
  • Articles:

    Interview:

    Alter Ego

    • Will Wiles is Martin Blank in Grosse Pointe Blank

    Comic Strip Review:

    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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    Theme image - September 2012

    Illustration by Alex Fitch