Defining Moments: The Birth of the Monstrous Feminine
As part of our Defining Moments series, Victoria O’Rourke discusses how The Hole piqued her interest in the intersection between film and feminism. A young woman stumbles through the woods and out onto a country lane. She is bloodied, crying and without shoes, is bloodied. Posters for missing teenagers hang in hedges and are strewn across the … Continue reading
Defining Moments: The Funny Game of Total Film
As part of our Defining Moments series, Matt Mansfield tells us the story of how Total Film magazine dragged him out of the multiplex and into the arthouse. I read my first copy of Total Film magazine in 2003, in an attempt to kill time in an airport. I’m not really sure why I bought … Continue reading
Defining Moments: Down the Rabbit Hole
Editor Simran Hans revisits Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, the film that defined her adolescence, for our Defining Moments series. I was fifteen years old when I first watched Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko. Kelly’s directorial debut had been quietly gathering cult status since its Sundance premiere in 2001, and although it had appeared on my radar, … Continue reading
Defining Moments: Into the Scented Darkness
Craig Williams watches 250 films a year. As part of our Defining Moments series, he looks back at the origins of his love of cinema. In Terrence Malik’s To the Wonder, there is a moment where a couple ascend a stone staircase into a beautiful old monastery. The camera glides slowly up the stairs revealing … Continue reading
Kubrick on the Guillotine 