Film Reviews
Athina Rachel Tsangari :: Harvest
Folk western on enclosure: a village that keeps its borders in the body.
Drama
Drama on Hwael Mag: narrative film weighed for atmosphere, memory and the spectral more than plot.
Film Reviews
Vittorio De Seta :: The Lost World (1954-1959)
Documentary shorts on southern labour, song and sea, Italy 1954–59.
Film Reviews
Naomi Kawase :: The Mourning Forest
Drama on grief, care and the difficulty of following another person.
Film Reviews
Derek Lister :: The Ice House
Folk horror, cold hands and the country house’s machinery of preservation.
Film Reviews
John Mackenzie :: Red Shift
Love and violence recur across three eras in Cheshire.
Film Reviews
Colin Cant :: The Children of Green Knowe
A flooded house, family ghosts and an English winter.
Film Reviews
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
Essays
The Country Between Programmes
British television, regional lives, lost plays and an accidental archive
Film Reviews
Robert Eggers :: The Lighthouse
Maritime horror, labour, hierarchy and the forbidden machinery of light
Essays
The Many Lives of The Unquiet Grave
Traditional ballad, grief, oral memory and songs carried across borders
Film Reviews
Kaneto Shindō :: Onibaba
Folk horror, reeds, hunger, bodily erosion and postwar memory
Album Reviews
Katherine Priddy :: These Frightening Machines
Contemporary folk, full-band arrangements, literary songs and quiet tension