Members of the Reel Talk editorial team reflect on their favourite films that they’ve seen on the big screen since cinemas reopened.
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Video essay: This Cold Night – Cold Synth
Toby Rodwell’s love letter to visceral horror cinema.
Sounds of the Underground – Short Film
Albert Bullock captures the disorientating feeling of the London Underground in this short film.
Millburn Memories
As the Warwick Film and Television Studies department prepares to move out of Millburn House, Matthew Smolenski bids farewell by compiling student and staff memories of the building.
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Owais Azam explores the thematic complexities of There Will Be Blood, focusing in particular on the presentation of protagonist Daniel Plainview.
First Year Favourites, 2020-21
The Warwick Film and TV Studies first year students reflect on some of their favourite films that they studied over the past year.
Sex on Screen and Objectification of Women in Rashomon
Issy Smith examines sex on screen and the objectification of women in Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950). Her analysis proves why it is crucial to engage with depictions of sex on screen in films firmly established within the canon from a racialised and feminist lens.
Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 2007)
Owais Azam deconstructs thriller genre conventions and shows how Michael Haneke reverses them. By drawing attention to POV and address Azam presents a film that is unsettlingly personal!
Exploring Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952) is a minimalistic yet emotionally and philosophically invigorating examination of the human condition; specifically, Ikiru perfectly condenses the lifelong human search for meaning and purpose into its 143-minute runtime.
Warwick Film and TV’s Alternative Oscars 2020
The results are in! Find out what the Warwick Film and Television Department’s students and staff voted for in our Alternative Oscars 2020.
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