Category Archives: Cinema
Wuthering Heights (2011)
Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, her third feature after Red Road (2006) and Fish Tank (2009), quickly establishes itself as a highly personalised take on the material. Those familiar with Arnold’s earlier films may also perceive common threads that link Wuthering … Continue reading
The Tree of Life (2011)
Sean Welsh is right about movies. Continue reading
Senna (2010)
“Everything that happens is real, and I didn’t shoot a frame of it. I didn’t need to. My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna.”1 Asif Kapadia “All aspects … Continue reading
Chi-Raq Programme Note for GFT
‘In da year 411 BC, before baby Jesus, y’all, Da Greek Aristophanes penned a play satirizin’ his day. And, in the style of his time, ‘Stophanes made dat shit rhyme…’ Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, 2015) is screening at GFT from Friday 2nd December to Thursday 8th December. … Continue reading
Captain Fantastic Programme Note for GFT
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross, 2016) is screening at GFT from Friday 9th September to Sunday 18th September. My accompanying programme note will be available at screenings and there’s an online version at GFT’s blog here. GFT archives all its programme notes online here. Sean Welsh
Physical Impossibility 