It was All a Dream: Escapism and Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
Dreams seem to straddle this boundary between fiction and reality, often informed by real life or perhaps made to help us cope with it.
La vita davanti a sé: Sex, death and Sophia Loren
Long time, no see! Sophia Loren, Italian star of ‘60s classics such as 1963's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and 1964's Marriage Italian Style, commands...
Making Queer Cinema history: Victim (1961)
"‘Victim’ illuminates an important moment in the history of LGBTQ+ rights, primarily in normalising the existence of homosexuality and encouraging empathy."
In Conversation with Tim Webber
Going from an Oxford Physics degree to winning an Oscar for your work on Gravity seems like, strangely, a fairly linear career path. For...
Damsels in distress? – The rise of the lesbian period drama
Kate Winslet catches Saoirse Ronan’s eye in the mirror,
watching in the light of an oil lamp as she takes her corset off. Later, Ronan...
Surrealism on film: Fellini and ‘Juliet of the Spirits’
Everyone’s going a bit crazy these days.
I, for one, am happy to admit that the last few months have been quite bizarre, and...
Unclichéd and unabashed: LGBTQ+ storytelling at its best
Many a list of the ‘Top 10 LGBT films’ can be found online. Undoubtedly, another handful of these lists have popped up during pride...
The Muse in Film: Winona Ryder and Tim Burton
When Winona Ryder first met Tim Burton, they talked like old friends about movies and music for over half an hour before realising that...
Editors’ picks – Life and Culture in the Time of Covid-19
Our CultCher and Life section editors have pooled their wide-ranging knowledge and have produced their picks for shows, albums, movies, books and lifestyle ideas...
Review: The True History of the Kelly Gang
Ned Kelly (born in 1854, died on the gallows in 1880) is the ultimate Australian anti-hero. As ubiquitous Down Under as Robin Hood is...
(Non)Traditional Casting
When you imagine an eccentric Dickens character or an armored knight of Arthurian legend, you probably don’t picture an ethnically Indian man. Dev Patel...
Review: Emma.
With Little Women and David Copperfield playing on screens, and The Secret Garden coming up in April, Emma. is one in a remarkable string...
“Clue” as a Chamber Piece for Our Time
I’ve only been away from Oxford for a week. I’ve only spent a week in isolation at home with my parents. But a week...
Review: For Sama
It is 2016, in Aleppo, Syria, and Waad al-Kateab is filming the world that unfolds around her, with a handheld film camera. This world...
