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CINEMA YEAR ZERO

  • VOLUME 4
  • VOLUME 3
  • VOLUME 2
  • VOLUME 1

Author: Thomas Atkinson

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 4

VOLUME 4: DOGME YEAR ZERO

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 4

Goodbye to Language | Dogme Year Zero

Tom Atkinson concludes a Cannes experiment he undertook in lockdown.

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 4

Tenet | Dogme Year Zero

Kirsty Asher looks to Christopher Nolan's tentpole behemoth to better understand movie studio arrogance.

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 4

Uppercase Print | Dogme Year Zero

Ben Flanagan reflects on his last in-person festival of 2020: the Berlinale.

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 4

#mydreampalace | Dogme Year Zero

Cathy Brennan takes on the cinematic institutions that have failed workers during the pandemic.

November 14, 2020December 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

VOLUME 3: IN THE SHADOW OF LANG

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

Harakiri | Lang

Serena Scateni pulls out the imperialist practices afoot in Lang's 1919 Madame Butterfly adaptation, Harakiri.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

The Wolf of Wall Street | Lang

Cathy Brennan finds that Dr Mabuse and The Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort have a lot in common.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

Metropolis | Lang

Katie Hogan asks whether the woman-as-robot character in fiction can only be in the image of the Maria-bot in Metropolis.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

M | Lang

Joseph Owen finds only despair and prison anxiety in the works of William Faulkner and serial killer thriller M.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

Night Hunter | Lang

Fedor Tot investigates why Fritz Lang's moral ambiguity influenced so many, but could be skilfully deployed by so few.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

The Lineup | Lang

Patrick Preziosi finds Lang's immediate influence in two 1950s Columbia noir films: Don Siegel's The Lineup and Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

Drug War | Lang

Tom Atkinson finds the Lang in one of the German auteur's most prolific spiritual descendants: Johnnie To.

November 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 3

The Indian Epic | Lang

Ben Flanagan breaks down Fritz Lang's Abbey Road: the large-scale political quagmire of The Indian Epic.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

VOLUME 2: SUS

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

Nanook of the North | Sus

Joseph Owen examines the power of knowledge and perception in Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

The Other Side of the Wind | Sus

Ben Flanagan makes the case for Orson Welles' long-lost masterpiece The Other Side of the Wind as a hybrid documentary on the death of a genius.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

Dreams of a Life | Sus

The public perception of a dead woman is challenged in Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life, as Orla Smith writes.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

Handsworth Songs | Sus

Satya Hariharan draws a line across history from 1980s British police violence in Black Audio Film Collective's Handsworth Songs to our present moment of image saturation.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

The Mind of Jake Paul | Sus

Cathy Brennan documents her fragmented thoughts and frustrations working her way through the filmography of corrupt YouTube auteur Shane Dawson.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

The Viewing Booth | Sus

Regarding The Pain of Others: Two new festival hits - Me and the Cult Leader and The Viewing Booth - are investigated by Catriona Mahmoud for what they can teach us about how we receive images and use them to shape our beliefs.

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

Inventing the Future | Sus

Thomas Atkinson surveys the digital documentary future promised by Isiah Medina's Inventing the Future, and says: 'Is this it?'

August 25, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 2

Arboretum Cycle | Sus

Maximilien Luc Proctor finds potential energy in landscape portraits in the experimental films of Nathaniel Dorsky, Teo Hernandez, and James Benning.

June 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 1

VOLUME 1: APOCALYPSE

June 14, 2020November 23, 2020 Thomas Atkinson VOLUME 1

Billy Liar | Apocalypse

Rhys Handley deconstructs the hopelessness of the Macmillan era in Billy Liar.

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