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Notes from London Film Festival (ii)

Welcome back to Cinema Year Zero at London Film Festival 2026. As the festival reaches its climax, this dispatch finds the bonds between various communities - familial, artistic, or otherwise - at their limit.

If you’re at the festi...

3 days ago
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Notes from London Film Festival (i)

Welcome to Cinema Year Zero at London Film Festival 2026. There are a hell of a lot of titles at this sprawling festival, so we won’t dither. Our first dispatch finds a contemporary cinema gripped by the power of the archive, delving into...

6 days ago
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Spione

Before today’s installment from our new issue, TOTALLY SPIES, a request: earlier this week our Instagram account was nuked (meta’s ai scanning for hack attempts bogusly targeting us). We have started a new, backup account @cinemayearzero_...

11 days ago
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Cinema Year '26: September

Welcome back to Cinema Year ‘26, our monthly review supplement. Below, we reach the very limits of cinema with a fantastical documentary, a cinephile’s stage production, an American comic in Sirk-land, a Spanish auteur-miniseries, and sur...

18 days ago
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Cinema Year Zero Presents: TOTALLY SPIES

Cinema Year Zero is excited to announce Volume 21: Totally Spies, a 7-essay anthology of writing on The Spy Film genre. Design by Jeremy Arblaster. Below, read the issue’s introduction, by Ben Flanagan.

The issue’s print edition wil...

25 days ago
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