I wrote about Peter Weir's FEARLESS (1993) and the profound humanism of the film's astonishingly smart, effective, and economical visual strategy for @animusmagazine.bsky.social a while back: animus-magazine.ghost.io/caring-is-sh...
Tickets are already on sale to BFI Members! Getting a membership could be a good deal if you’re planning on seeing several films in the season — which you definitely should, since they’re all good: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
You can watch the episode on Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/2JQ5...
In this new episode of Hard Truths, @elazic.bsky.social and @manilazic.bsky.social get emotional talking about the work of one of their favourite filmmakers, Maurice Pialat. animus-magazine.ghost.io/hard-truths-...
When it comes to film, is older always better? In the latest Psycho. a reader admits they do not *get* the cinema of John Cassavetes. From this sad predicament, Caspar Salmon finds several ways out of shame, towards a kinder reckoning with cinemas past & present 🙏 animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-67/
In his latest Psycho. column, Caspar looks ahead to a happy Lisa Kudrow year: animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-65/
Is love real, or a socially accepted form of delusion? Is romance a choice, or written in the unalterable script of our destiny? As Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) turns 30, Elena and Manuela revisit his Before Trilogy and discuss NOUVELLE VAGUE. animus-magazine.ghost.io/hard-truths-...
Absolutely thrilled to be publishing such a wonderful essay from Robert. Bringing back long-form pieces on Animus has been a highlight of my year.
Katharine Hepburn in SILVYA SCARLETT (George Cukor, 1935)
animus-magazine.ghost.io/queer-auteur...
🎬 NEW LONG-FORM ESSAY 🎬
As queer rights are under threat and queer representation in commercial cinema in retreat, looking back at the careers of queer directors from Code-era Hollywood can be more than a chance to revisit great films. By Robert Stinner: animus-magazine.ghost.io/queer-auteur...
🏀 NEW LONG-FORM ESSAY 🏀
In his wide-ranging piece, returning Animus writer @bharathan.bsky.social looks at the ways sporting excellence is portrayed and/or analysed in different media, through the example of Michael Jordan. animus-magazine.ghost.io/the-invisibl...
Anand Sudha (@anandsudha.bsky.social) considers his own experience – as film fan and Indian viewer – with Blake Edwards’ controversial, revered comedy THE PARTY (1968), engaging with his own hopes and expectations for the film's acerbic critique of Hollywood: animus-magazine.ghost.io/whos-invited...
The Animus long-form essays continue!
Elena and Manuela leave no stones unturned as they discuss these three films by way of Severance, the manosphere, and the corporate girlies.
And for the first time, the episode can be watched as a video, for free on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0jmE...
Finally in Darren Aronofsky’s CAUGHT STEALING (2025), Austin Butler’s aimless bartender confronts past trauma via a whole new bunch of trauma.
Artwork by Ise Ananphada.
Milton Moses Ginsberg’s underseen, Rip Torn-starring indie gem COMING APART (1969) charts the psychological unravelling of a New York psychiatrist who takes to recording his clients’ appointments without their knowledge.
Poster for The Offence
Among the films discussed is Sidney Lumet’s THE OFFENCE (1973), in which Sean Connery plays a detective-sergeant who has seen too much.
In this new episode of Hard Truths - the 10th! - @manilazic.bsky.social and @elazic.bsky.social discuss three recent watches, and accidentally land on a theme: male trauma, and a certain sense of entitlement. animus-magazine.ghost.io/jukebox-or-y...
In the latest edition of Psycho., the Animus advice column for cinephiles, Caspar Salmon answers a reader’s question by looking at the duo of actors headlining the new Netflix show Hostage: Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy. 💌: animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-58/
Thank you for sharing!
Love, desire and fate considered in the films of my favourite director Max Ophüls - @manilazic.bsky.social & @elazic.bsky.social @animusmagazine.bsky.social podcast … open.spotify.com/episode/55bB...
From the ultraviolence of RAW to the OTT silliness of TITANE and the emo intensity of ALPHA: in this ep of Hard Truths, @elazic.bsky.social & @manilazic.bsky.social talk about the ideas lurking behind the infamous shock value of Julia Ducournau's cinema. animus-magazine.ghost.io/julia-ducour...
Thank you Robert for sharing!
ICYMI long-form essays are back on Animus 💙 starting with this thoroughly researched, rip-roaring look at climate change cinema by John Kidwell
A breathless read reflecting our breathless times. Had a lot of fun!!
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Be Scientific, Douchebag On the last 30 years of climate change cinema by John Kidwell still: Mark Whalberg looking bewildered by a green plant in M. Night Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING (2008)
After a long hiatus… Animus long-form essays are back!
John Kidwell writes about cinema’s response to the unfolding climate crisis over the last 30 years: animus-magazine.ghost.io/be-scientifi...
Rewatching this a few weeks ago as part of a piece (up next week, I think?) was revelatory, which is a bit odd bc I already considered it one of the Great American Movies
