Cinephilia & Beyond

All hands on deck! The Cinephilia&Beyond site, which I have referenced here many times in the past, is in trouble. I don't know what's been happening there, but they reported on Bluesky recently that their daily page visits are way down from where they thought they were, and that is causing some consternation. They need to raise £50,000 by the end of December in order to keep going.

Cinephilia & Beyond is the single best site for movie lovers online. Their pieces are well-written, insightful, enthralling and genuinely inspirational. You can lose days to this place. If you haven't visited before, or for a while, take a look - it really is amazing. It's a resource we cannot afford to lose.

I know it's the end of the year and everyone is feeling the pinch in some way, but if you can spare anything at all, please donate TODAY: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/

For more of a flavour of just how brilliant and unique this place is, here are some recent pieces:

The Fruitful Collaboration Between Novelist Alistair MacLean and Film Producer Elliott Kastner • Cinephilia & Beyond

October 20, 2024 By Koraljka Suton Legendary American film producer Elliott Kastner passed away in 2010, at the age of eighty. After starting out in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency in New York, he relocated to Los Angeles and joined the Music Corporation of America as a talent agent, which

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Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’: A Deep Exploration of the Importance of Language, the Nature of Time and the Dichotomy of Human Existence • Cinephilia & Beyond

Any student of directing and filmmaking can learn a lot from Denis Villeneuve and Arrival, one of the best science fiction movies in recent years.

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Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13’: One of the Greatest Action Films of the 1970s • Cinephilia & Beyond

Assault on Precinct 13 poster art by Tyler Stout, https://www.tstout.com September 10, 2024 By Koraljka Suton Four years before Halloween, a film that single-handedly redefined the slasher subgenre, John Carpenter made his directorial debut with Dark Star (1974), a science fiction comedy about an alien terrorizing the crew of a deteriorating starship,

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Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, and Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’ • Cinephilia & Beyond

By Jasun Horsley The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, ’Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the