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Trainspotting (1993, 1996): A Tale of Two Tastes
In the landscape of cultural adaptation, few works demonstrate the metamorphosis of medium as starkly as Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and Danny Boyle’s cinematic interpretation. Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting was one of the 90s’ defining works of cinema: fresh, exhilarating, narcissistic and… Continue reading
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The World’s Greatest Bargain?
The cinema industry is, we are so often told, in decline. For years, the industry’s soothsayers and town criers have been foretelling the demise of traditional film attendance. The rise of streaming services and widespread digital piracy had already begun… Continue reading
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The Brutalist: A monumental, time immemorial masterwork
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist traces thirty years in the life of László Toth, a Jewish-Hungarian architect who emerges from the Holocaust to forge a new life in America. While Toth’s architecture embraces brutalism, Corbet’s film stands as the aesthetic opposite… Continue reading
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My Life in 100 Films
Cinema reaches beyond mere entertainment. It is an expresser, a communicator, a time capsule, a voice, a memory box, a guru, a language, and the provider of myriad frames through which we view life. Like the age-old question as to… Continue reading
The Eye of an Archer 