Has Letterboxd Changed The Way We Watch Films?
Do ratings help us discover great films or have they quietly changed the way we watch?
Before you've even bought a ticket, you probably know the Letterboxd average, the IMDb score or the Rotten Tomatoes percentage. Somewhere between the opening scene and the closing credits, many of us are already …
Is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Just 6 Great Scenes?
Why are journeys one of cinema's defining storytelling forms?
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey brings one of literature's greatest journeys to the screen. Laura Gommans and Tom Ooms discuss whether the film succeeds as an epic, why Nolan's obsession with IMAX shapes the experience as much as the st…
Who Really Was the Father Of African Cinema? — Ousmane Sembène, By His Son Alain
Some filmmakers don't just make great films, they change who cinema is for.
60 years ago, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (La Noire de...) announced a new cinematic voice to the world. Through the story of a young Senegalese woman working for a French family, Sembène exposed the brutal realities of co…
Why Black Girl Still Matters 60 Years Later w/ Djeneba Saccoh
Who gets to tell a story? And who gets to see themselves reflected on screen?
Sixty years after its release, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (La Noire de..., 1966) remains one of the defining works of African cinema. Restored in 4K and re-released by Odyssey Classics for its anniversary, Sembène's gro…
Can Cinema Teach Us How to Pay Attention? — What Playtime, Ikiru & After Hours Asks Of Us
We’re constantly told to slow down and be present, but what does it actually mean to pay attention when so much of modern life is designed to scatter it?
This summer, French auteur Jacques Tati returns to LAB111 in six newly restored 4K classics, including his magnum opus PlayTime. Few filmmakers h…
Cine Of The Times: Did No Country For Old Men Predict Trump’s America?
In 2007, the Coen Brothers made a thriller set in 1980 that somehow captured an American dread that hadn't fully arrived yet. Critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest return to No Country for Old Men — the coin toss, the deaths that happen offscreen, the sheriff who solves nothing — to…
What Do Mothers And Daughters Inherit From Each Other?
“My mother and cinema are my two teachers in life, each in their own peculiar ways.”
Filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus and producer Elliot Bloom explore the parallels between these two teachers: the women who raise us, and the films that show us how to live, love and understand the world.
Coinciding with…
Did Terminator 2 Ruin How We Imagine The End Of The World?
Thirty-five years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, cinema is still imagining the end of the world through killer machines, nuclear war, viruses and alien invasions. But did one of the greatest blockbusters ever made teach us to imagine the apocalypse all wrong?
With Terminator 2 returning to our s…
How Did 9/11 Change Hollywood?
How did 9/11 change Hollywood and when does entertainment become propaganda?
Marking 25 years since 9/11 and coinciding with LAB111’s Manufacturing Consent programme, Elliot Bloom and film critic Hugo Emmerzael trace cinema’s long relationship with propaganda and political power. From revolutionary…
Why Is Dutch Cinema Struggling to Find Its Audience?
From Paul Verhoeven to Hoyte van Hoytema to Halina Reijn, Dutch filmmakers have made a mark far beyond the Netherlands. But why doesn’t Dutch cinema travel as far as the talent it produces?
For this Nederlands Film Festival special, Celebrating Cinema host Elliot Bloom speaks with actor Yootha Wong…
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