Guest post by Chris Forrester. Ask any cinephile what unmade film haunts them the most and they’ll certainly have an answer. Maybe it’s Jodorowsky’s much-obsessed-over Dune adaptation, maybe it’s Kubrick’s Napoleon – trumped by the financial failure of Sergei Bondarchuk’s Waterloo – or his version of A.I., eventually directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001 (of… Read more »
Guest post by Chris Forrester. The king is back, they say, with Crimes of the Future, and he’s promising walkouts. Eight years after his last feature film — Maps to the Stars (2014), then thought of as something of a frustrated sign-off from the once horror titan — just shy of two-and-a-half decades after his… Read more »
Guest post by Chris Forrester. As the early days of pandemic-necessitated isolation stretched into weeks and the weeks into months, and as it gradually became clearer and clearer that life as we knew it would never return and whatever semblance of it we could return to remains far out of reach, I found a degree… Read more »
Guest post by Chris Forrester. The unremitting power of memory has always been central to the films of Wong Kar-Wai — stories of lost love and deep yearning that hinge on their capacity to channel something specific and powerful about the way time renders the most fleeting encounters with love profound. And if there’s one… Read more »