Leshu Torchin offers a selection of films embodying or representing the female gaze. What is that, you ask? These films could answer that question, which even when answered, requires more. ...
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María Fernanda Miño offers up a taster of Ecuadorian cinema with twelve films representing a range of genres and perspectives. ...
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Films about illness and disability can tell us so much more; Kai Gao explains in playlist on disease in Chinese cinema, tell us something about China as much as they might about film and disease....
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There's so much more than Tiger King. Edinburgh International Film Festival documentary programmer Rohan Crickmar provides a list of idiosyncratic documentaries that will challenge common assumptions and broaden your imagination. ...
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Dina Iordanova offers an annotated and infomative playlist centred on documentarian Naomi Kawase....
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Cassice Last offers a playlist of (mostly) contemporary films navigating the subject of human survival with themes of isolation, entrapment, companionship, technology, and the environment. ...
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Patrick Adamson's themed playlist offers readers an opportunity to recreate the experience of attending a silent film festival (as much as possible anyway) in a time of lockdowns. Don't forget to support Hippfest for when we get to go out again. ...
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In 'Embodying Capitalism' Leshu Torchin offers a playlist of films that make visible the abstract and ostensibly neutral or objective systems of finance to show the workings of capitalism and their effects on our lived world. ...
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Looking for things to watch that aren't part of the usual suspects? Check out (and contribute) to this list of global and hard to find films available via streaming. ...
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In which Leshu Torchin thinks aloud about Henry Gates Jr's Signifyin(g), Marlon Riggs's Black Macho, Blaxploitation, and Dolemite is My Name. ...
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