Cinema Year Zero

Slow criticism from the end of the world.
Journal based in South East London.

'Mostly terrific' - Criterion Daily.

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More info on the season, and tickets: https://t.co/gFR2Ey3l11

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NOT BY LYNCH continues: @CinemaMuseum @yearzerocinema

Michael Snow's Corpus Callosum (2002) + Sshtoorrty (2005).
A rare big-screen chance to see two extraordinary experiments in early digital cinema.

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W/ new programme note by Graeme Arnfield.

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Our new releases digest for June:

Farzad Azimbeik on Mare’s Nest

@manlikeflan on Power Ballad

@radleyblaise on Jackass: Best and Last

@Cursed__Tea on Backrooms

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24 HOUR NOSTALGIA

A new essay by Ellisha Izumi (@ellishawith2Ls), reflecting on the unique position of participating as both programmer and audience member at Double Wonderful’s 24 HOUR CINEMA experiment.

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We will also host a Critics Salon, featuring readings along with conversation about our critical practices. More details to follow.

Our full newsletter announcement, featuring 10 highlights from the festival: https://t.co/7FQGpsioGW
Vive Le Cinema!

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Cinema Year Zero is excited to announce that we are partnering with Cinema Rediscovered Festival 2026.

From us, you can expect a new essay for each day of the festival on a film in the programme. These will be available on our website, and in print at Watershed.

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Friday 24th July: we host Les Sièges de l’Alcazar post-screening discussion of the film’s depiction of the pratfalls of cinephilia at Watershed café/bar.

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@_rtab_ @JeremyArblaster Ahead of tomorrow's screening, read Sam's programme note: https://t.co/rb7PuOKiyA

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NOT BY LYNCH continues on Fri 12 June with Tobe Hooper's Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
A feverish tale of bodily breakdown, government secrecy, and psychic disintegration, and one of the strangest and most overlooked American films of its era.
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Curated by @_rtab_

Design by @JeremyArblaster

More info on the season, and tickets:
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Our May reviews:

@Cursed__Tea on Offbeat Folk Film Festival

@Angellly3 on Ciao UFO

Tom de Lancy Green on The Christophers

Bethan Ingman on Two Pianos

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RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY AK-47

THE PLASTIC SURFACES OF KARAOKE VISUALS

A new essay by Oliver Hunt, whose discovery of an obscure 1990s karaoke video leads to a deep dive on the aesthetic pleasures and inherent contradictions of the genre.

Link below👇

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Super proud of my design for the @yearzerocinema Ken Russell issue 🐍
Especially this playable middle page of Snakes, Ladders and P*nises 🪜

More pages on my Instagram-
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@_rtab_ @JeremyArblaster Ahead of tomorrow's screening, check out @Mahda941's programme note:

https://t.co/xtM7QAs88C

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NOT BY LYNCH continues on Friday 8 May at The Cinema Museum with Jack Sholder’s The Hidden (1987) — a propulsive sci-fi thriller that mutates the body-swap premise into something darker, stranger, and more unsettling.

Link below👇

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Curated by @_rtab_
Design by @JeremyArblaster
More info on the season, and tickets: https://t.co/9GuOLjkK7T

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NOT BY LYNCH continues Fri 8 May @CinemaMuseum

Jack Sholder’s The Hidden (1987): a kinetic sci-fi thriller where identity becomes unstable, and something moves from body to body beneath the surface.

With a new programme note by @Mahda941, produced by @yearzerocinema