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THE SUPER 8 YEARS

Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot,

Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature, recalls, ‘In reviewing our Super 8 films…it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to pastimes, lifestyle, and aspirations of a social class…

THE SWALLOW

Tadhg O’Sullivan,

In a small house by the sea, a woman begins a letter to an unknown correspondent. Surrounded by the books, mementoes and clutter of her life, her home exposed to the waves of a rising ocean, she writes about the…

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB

Kaouther Ben Hania,

January 29th, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call from Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. Alongside her are the bodies of six members of her family.…

THIS MORTAL COIL: A GHOST STORY

David Lowery,

Some years ago, during a talk-show interview, Keanu Reeves was asked, somewhat facetiously, what he thinks happens when we die. He replied, “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” The truth behind this simple, brilliant answer…

THIS MORTAL COIL: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,

Our second speculative interlude on what lies behind the veil is Powell and Pressburger’s magical fantasy-romance, one of their best-loved and most imaginative works, and a near-perfect film.  Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want…

THIS MORTAL COIL: AFTER LIFE

Hirokazu Kore-eda,

Concluding the season, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gorgeous, humane film is our final representation of what may await in the great beyond. It puts an idiosyncratic spin on the relationship between death and memory explored in other, more emotionally turbulent films in…

THIS MORTAL COIL: AMOUR

Michael Haneke,

Age brings with it an inevitable degree of physical and cognitive decline. At its worst, cognitive impairment can evolve into dementia, stealing us from our loved ones and ourselves. This has given rise to the recent concept of “the zeroth…

THIS MORTAL COIL: ANXIETY + DEATH & TRANSFIGURATION

Sławomir Fabicki | Terence Davies,

In an acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical short films, of which Death And Transfiguration is the final installment, Terence Davies created an alter ego whose life the films followed in childhood and middle age, and, most audaciously, speculated on the manner…

THIS MORTAL COIL: IKIRU

Akira Kurosawa,

To paraphrase Heidegger, confronting death can lead to a more authentic relationship with life itself. This confrontation is all too frequently forced upon the unsuspecting with a diagnosis of terminal illness that sometimes precipitates a decline that must be endured…

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