electric ghost

film criticism, commentary, conversations.

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"At a time of continuing uncertainty about the prospects of big-screen entertainment [Top Gun: Maverick] suggests that the keys to a bright future can be found in the past."

Edward Weech heaps praise on @TomCruise & @TopGunMovie.

#TopGunMaverick

https://t.co/yZVmzOEskM

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"She certainly represents the transition from an ethics of collective self-sacrifice to consumer individualism. But this goes unexamined by Larraín, to whom Diana is simply a secular Joan of Arc..."

@BelovedFire_ is unimpressed by SPENCER.

https://t.co/Gc0JvQ5oEG

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"...comes from a fundamentally sick place in spite of its insight; it is cinema as homeopathy. Swallow this pill, drink this poison, the movie seems to say..."

Bobby Vogel pens a piece on @eugeugeug's SPREE, streaming on @netflix now.

https://t.co/XQg6QQrkqn

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

VILLAIN is now streaming on UK Netflix, "a motion picture of folk-art integrity and conviction of sensibility" writes @BelovedFire_ in our positive review from last year.

Read it here ☞ https://t.co/w3kVtNt0rS

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

@Maria_Egieva takes on the fashionable, "committed" art that is pop feminist cinema, making the case that ineffective agitprop is chosen over effective complexity and formal innovation, to both cinema's and feminism's detriment.

Click below to read.

https://t.co/RyWXVM57VC

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"aura of esoteric knowledge helps sustain positions of moral or intellectual authority—even if the topic at hand is simply the latest Marvel movie."

Edward Weech ponders the newly fraught relationship between the critic and a communally-defined audience.

https://t.co/2aPjZpCtEK

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

Books! Tarantino, Ophuls, Hitchcock, Melville, De Palma, Ozon, @WuTangClan, David Lowery, @officialDannyT … https://t.co/Rt6xquTIym

[Stephen Smith @SteveNickSmith]

The best review of the best film of the year below. A remarkable study of how someone driven by the social darwinism of Herbert Spencer is dialectically shredded by the maelstrom of social forces around him. Pietro Marcello a real directorial talent to watch in future

[Film Hub NI @FilmHubNI]

Nice work from @langsmonkey here on Martin Eden, screening @QFTBelfast this week.

[Institut français UK @ifru_london]

"Pietro Marcello’s (...) #MartinEden fuses avant-garde methods with classical filmmaking form. The result is a piece of accessible high drama that is radical, exploratory, and analytical" - @langsmonkey @EG_Magazine

Watch #MartinEden now at #CinéLumière
https://t.co/ONWKalG4Es

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

We encourage people to check out @NewWaveFilms's wonderful MARTIN EDEN in UK cinemas now.

@langsmonkey describes it as a radical high drama, both classic and avant-garde.

https://t.co/xM6NRifrmE

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"...elucidates some of the more subtle and even impenetrable gestures."

@PatrickPreziosi reviews James Naremore's monograph on LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, part of the BFI Film Classics series published by @BloomsburyMedia.

https://t.co/jw9yIa3Omr

[Cahiers du cinéma @cahierscinema]

⚡️ Retrouvez le numéro d’été (juillet-août) en kiosque le 7 juillet : numéro double CANNES + PIALAT ⚡️

⎼ L'édito : https://t.co/65HxtsWn8c
⎼ Acheter le numéro : https://t.co/chLW8Oq5U9

💥 CANNES 2021 : “Annette“ de Leos Carax / “Benedetta“ de Paul Verhoeven / ...

[ULTRA DOGME @ultradogme]

"Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville is a well-written primer for one of French cinema’s greatest mad mercenaries and lionhearts."

Ruairí McCann (@langsmonkey) reviews a new text on Melville by Andrew Dickos and from @_contramundum_

https://t.co/HPdN42Qn3w

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

Out today in the UK! 🍻

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"Vinterberg’s interest in our underlying Dionysian urges is quintessentially Romantic, his film a Sturm und Drang escapade. But it’s also a quintessentially Scandinavian concern"

@BelovedFire_ on ANOTHER ROUND (@StudiocanalUK), starring @theofficialmads.

https://t.co/t7eAI7ABmw

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"...the film insinuates the dwindling possibility of transnationalism, globalism [...] the dream of swapping lives, families, and lifestyles, a dream typical for Europe post-1989..."

@SavinaPetkova writes on the @BFI-funded AFTER LOVE, in cinemas now.

https://t.co/W58c64nuy5

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"Vinterberg’s interest in our underlying Dionysian urges is quintessentially Romantic, his film a Sturm und Drang escapade. But it’s also a quintessentially Scandinavian concern"

@BelovedFire_ on ANOTHER ROUND (@StudiocanalUK), starring @theofficialmads.

https://t.co/t7eAI7ABmw

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

"By refusing to engage in rituals of masculine violence, there is subtle subversion without the voice of a hectoring ideologue."

@BelovedFire_ writes on CRAZY SAMURAI: 400 VS 1 (@DazzlerMedia), the experimental single-take action film.

https://t.co/VRYg0nBBdR

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

We're releasing a batch of fresh articles, starting with @langsmonkey on George A. Romero's once-lost THE AMUSEMENT PARK, now streaming on @Shudder.

"...a modest but finely tuned and discomforting morality tale..."

https://t.co/rgzCZNndl0

[electric ghost @EG_Magazine]

Book spotlight: FILM AND THE IMAGINED IMAGE by Sarah Cooper, published by @EdinburghUP.

"...explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination."

Read more ☞ https://t.co/l8pd83LZ7C