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Club LWLies

Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025

by Mila Fielker

A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?
Collage of stills from a film; includes woman in red coat, people embracing, child making surprised expression, cityscape, and text 'Elinore Cafeteria'.
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The New Bootlegs: Open Matte Films & Unofficial Scans

by Lexie Corbett

The unofficial, often open matte scans of these films preserve a tactile history of cinema in its imperfect totality.
Collage featuring 1960s pop culture icons including a girl group and a female singer with long dark hair.
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When pop stars become auteurs

by Anna McKibbin

The visual album is a key, genre-defying vessel for pop music titans transferring the symbolic power of their music to image-making.
A black and white portrait of a man playing a harp, surrounded by large pink flowers.
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The Beautiful and the Pointless

by Esmé Holden

If sex scenes, or any other type of scene, don’t need to serve the plot, do they need to serve anything at all?
Detailed illustration of a trio of figures in a surreal, purple-toned fantasy scene featuring geometric shapes and patterns.
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The complicated legacy of heavy metal in cinema

by Sarah Cleary

Metal is often given short shrift at the movies, but a handful of great auteurs have used the genre and its subculture to brilliant effect.
Two figures, one in a teal hooded top and the other in a vibrant red and white dress, standing against a vivid crimson background.
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Feeling Seen: On the possibilities of found footage horror

by Alison Rumfitt

Recent entries to the subgenre of found footage horror attest to its appeal to queer filmmakers and audiences alike.
A man in a coat stands at the front of a classroom, addressing students seated in colourful chairs.
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Cinematic Investigations: At the Picturehouse with Wittgenstein

by Lillian Crawford

A film critic traces the connections between philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s escapist eccentricities and her own formative experiences as a cinephile.

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