
Cinema Body Cinema Mind is a home for thinking and feeling our way through film. I explore how movies work on us—not just in our heads, but in our senses, memories, and everyday lives through essays, podcast episodes, and video lectures.
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New prologue May, 2026
It’s increasingly bittersweet engaging with the Cannes film festival announcements and it has always been a tad so. The increasing bittersweetness comes from the ongoing lack of UK theatrical or streaming release of...
As a valueless hypocrite or a realist cynic living in a universe of compromise, I muse here on leaving Substack for the sunny uplands of a more ethically acceptable digital platform.
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Watch now (34 mins) | For my paid subscribers, bonus conversation where we get into 3 films from 2025.
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British filmmaker Mark Jenkin's new film, Rose of Nevada, has just been released in the UK to widespread acclaim. Here is my in-depth interview with Mark from last year.
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Watching My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - The Last Air in Moscow, now showing on MUBI, directed by Soviet-born American filmmaker Julia Loktev, I kept thinking about the lacuna between my conceptual notion of a dictatorship...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Words, written and spoken, on film, culture, art, education, with a philosophical inflection.
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Roving cinevangelist & professional word nerd, on a quest to build a real film culture in Columbus, OH.
Actor, Londoner, Dad. In that order. Expert in men chasing status whilst overcompensating for their deep routed insecurities. grew up in a Blockbuster
A cinephile for decades, with an emphasis on European arthouse cinema. I write about films from festivals (mostly) on The Disapproving Swede webpage and other outlets. https://www.disapprovingswede.com/
Cinema-maker. Former Co-Executive Director of Filmmakers Alliance.
I'm making my first documentary at 62, Voices for Change, with my kid Ray, a talented filmmaker at 19. I'm writing about this journey here.
Expect lots of FilmStack and then random thoughts on tv, movies, theater, books, and life
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one more time with feeling.
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