Happy New Year, reader(s)! Before we get into 2016 in earnest, a small throat-clearing in honour of our masthead mascot from Le Mépris, the centrepiece of the BFI Southbank’s Jean-Luc Godard season, which runs for the next two months.
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Merry Christmas, readers
We’re taking our traditional festive break, and intending to be back on 4 January (although you never know what might tempt us back in the interim to the Russian roulette game of “which WordPress editing interface will I be served today?”).
We leave you with Janet Leigh pretending to be a Christmas tree.
Ho ho ho!
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
MrMoth sits in a darkened space and listens to an old story told through fresh language.
Breaking Into The Forbidden Room, or Bits Of Life*
Bonus post! What did Paul Duane find in Guy Maddin’s tesseract of cinema?
EVERYTHING..
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The State Of This
So that was Season 9 of Doctor Who, then. Ricky Young punches a diamond wall in the face, and wonders if the shredded knuckles were worth it.
MostlyFilm’s Best of 2015: Music
So it’s that time of year again. On Wednesday we’ll be writing about some of our favourite telly of the year, and next week we’ll bring you some thoughts on some of the films of the year. But first, a musical palate-cleanser.
Orson Welles: One-Man Band
Philip Concannon reviews the latest (but not the last) volume of Simon Callow’s biography of Welles.
Mostly Links – Friday the 13th edition
Feeling lucky, punk? Space-filling nonsense from Indy Datta after the jump.
Mostly Links – August Bank Holiday 2015 Bumper Special Edition
Links, stuff, other stuff. Because we didn’t get into a Straight Outta Compton screening, obvs.
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Hard to be a God
Paul Duane on the late Alexei German’s last, and maybe most singular, film, which reaches British screens this week.
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