The Film Dispatch

25/03/2023

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/memories-of-movie-watching/

By walking us back in time with films from The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) to Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Lesley Finn reminds us of the power of film and family and how those closest to us can inspire a deep fondness for cinema. 🤗

Issue 7: Memory Memories of Movie Watching By The Film Dispatch 19 March 2023 19 March 2023  Features By walking us back in time with films from The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) to Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Lesley Finn reminds us of the power of film and family and how those closest to us can...

25/03/2023

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/re-membering-the-other-mnemonic-sutures-in-hiroshima-mon-amour-1959/

Lim Kai Tjoon analyses how in Hiroshima, Mon Amour, the past is not always an inaccessible aspect of our lives but an embodied experience in the present. Let’s swim back to the great old days!

23/03/2023

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/oldboy-2003/

In Park Chan Wook’s Oldboy, memory seems to be a way of navigating a mystifying present. Ethan Radus argues that in remembering something we do not transport ourselves into a fixed history so much as we begin to reckon with our present day lives.
Let’s enjoy the old days! 😍🥰🥳

Issue 7: Memory Imagining Nothing: Memory in Oldboy (2003) By The Film Dispatch 19 March 2023 20 March 2023  Features In Park Chan Wook’s Oldboy, memory seems to be a way of navigating a mystifying present. Ethan Radus argues that in remembering something we do not transport ourselves into a fixe...

23/03/2023

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/chungking-express-1994/

Wifak Gueddana looks at
Wong Kar Wai’s classic Chungking Express and how it explores the fractured memories of the heartbroken by narratively and technically playing with time, space, and narration.

Let the memory swim back to 1994!

Issue 7: Memory Chungking Express (1994) By The Film Dispatch 19 March 2023 19 March 2023  Film Reviews Wifak Gueddana looks at Wong Kar Wai’s classic Chungking Express and how it explores the fractured memories of the heartbroken by narratively and technically playing with time, space, and narra...

21/03/2023

Looking back to a conversation between two characters in Jean Luc Godard’s Vivre sa Vie (1962), Weiyi Wang interrogates the camera’s relationship to the emotionality within the sequence.

Issue 7: Memory A Memory of Dialogue By The Film Dispatch 19 March 2023 19 March 2023  Short pieces Looking back to a conversation between two characters in Jean Luc Godard’s Vivre sa Vie (1962), Weiyi Wang interrogates the camera’s relationship to the emotionality within the sequence. Regardin...

21/03/2023

Michaela Flaherty is catapulted back into her teenage years as she reviews Disney Pixar’s fantastical take on the coming-of-age narrative, Turning Red.
Feel free to have a look!

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/turning-red-2022/

Issue 7: Memory Turning Red (2022) By The Film Dispatch 19 March 2023 20 March 2023  Film Reviews Michaela Flaherty is catapulted back into her teenage years as she reviews Disney Pixar’s fantastical take on the coming-of-age narrative, Turning Red. I think it’s telling that my dad, whose taste...

17/12/2022

The theme of our next issue is… “MEMORY” Can’t stop thinking about the painful nostalgia of Aftersun? Fascinated by the political use of memory in The Act of Killing?? Got some thoughts about the presentation of amnesia in Memento??? Then this is the issue for you! Submissions close January 9th 2023. Feel free to run your wonderful ideas by us via DMs or [email protected]

21/11/2022

Julia Ducournau’s 2021 horror-drama fuses the scaffold of horror with shifting senses of gender, belonging, the body, s*x, and technology (modernity?). The product is a redefinition of the genre in which the object of fear isn’t what threatens to harm our bodies but the body itself.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/titane-2021-review-whos-afraid-of-a-big-bad-genre-expansion/

20/11/2022

After 28 years, Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice has once again been adapted for theatrical release. With Rice’s passing, her son’s involvement in the production, actors of color in the lead roles, this artwork has once again evoked the imagination of audiences.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/interview-with-the-vampire-2022-the-beginning-of-an-immortal-universe/

19/11/2022

In an era of media dominated by the sequel and reboots, no one was surprised to see that the horror icon Michael Myers was coming back to the big screen. Hollywood’s attempts at revitalising a franchise appear to have one question in common: how is what we—the modern audience—think and believe different from those of the past?

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/the-legacy-of-a-horror-icon-halloween-1978-to-halloween-ends-2022/

18/11/2022

The Addams Family is a black humour films with a fun, playful and macabre tone. Recently, a series Wednesday produced by Netflix and directed by Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, 1990; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, 2016, etc.) will be launched in November, talking about the school life of Wednesday Addams.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/short-review-for-the-addams-family-1991/

17/11/2022

Coco (2017) offers the illusion of a link between the real world and the return of dead souls, through the memories and thoughts of the living, personified in photographs, which the souls are able to return to on the annual El Día de los Mu***os.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/death-and-the-present-world-coco-2017/

16/11/2022

The second article of the Halloween Issue is about The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973). It is a film that defies every convention associated with the horror genre.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/short-review-for-the-wicker-man-1973/

14/11/2022

Come and see the new editorial team from 2022 to 2023! We can't wait to share some interesting films with you!!!

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/编辑团队-2022-23/

16/09/2022

✨ After 5 amazing issues, it's time for our current team to step down and make way for a brand new team! Thanks to everyone that made this possible 🙏 Watch this space!



Check out all our hard work on our website - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/

11/09/2022

✨ Finally, Ethan Williamson reviews After Yang (2022), screened at the closing gala of the 75th Edinburgh International Film Festival 🎬



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/75th-edinburgh-international-film-festival-the-closing-gala/

10/09/2022

⏰ So many films, so little time! Niamh Carey-Furness covers 5 intriguing films from



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/5-films-saw-at-eiff/

09/09/2022

🎬 Today, Hannah Qiu reviews Return to Dust (2022), another festival gem 😍



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/review-return-to-dust-2022/

08/09/2022

🎥 Edinburgh + Film = . In this article, Niamh Carey-Furness reviews Winners (2022), a heart-warming Iranian film screened at



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/review-winners/

07/09/2022

📰 In this article, Yudong Liu reviews classic French film Last Year at Marienbad (1961)



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/review-last-year-at-marienbad-1961/

06/09/2022

🎥 In today's article, Katherine Heller reviews Edinburgh-set animated film The Illusionist (2010) 🎨



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/the-illusionist-2010/

05/09/2022

🎬 Here, Maria Farsoon discusses imagination on screen ⚡️



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/imagination-on-screen/

05/09/2022

🌟 In this piece, Lesley Finn discusses how Indigenous oral storytelling traditions can be rendered on screen 📰



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/transforming-oral-tradition/

05/09/2022

🚀 Our fifth issue has officially launched! Check out the articles on our website 👀



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/category/2022/issue-5-storytelling/

30/08/2022

🔏Submissions for our fifth issue have officially closed! While our editors and design team prepare for the issue launch, check out our previous issues 📰



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/

Interview with a Director: Electric Malady (2022) With the Edinburgh International Film Festival opening tonight, we spoke to director Marie Lidén about her documentary feature – Electric… 12 August 2022 1

24/08/2022

🌟 Today, we celebrate Yudong Liu - another of our amazing writers! Yudong has written articles for two of our four issues.

A little bit about Yudong...

Favourite film right now = Seven Samurai (1954) ⚔️

Favourite film ever = The Matrix (1999) 🕶

Check out Yudong's articles on our website!
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/

22/08/2022

⏳ One week left to submit for our fifth issue! Email your pitches and articles to [email protected] to be featured 📰 Check out our website for details!



https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/join-us/call-for-papers/

Call for Papers Call For Papers! Thank you to everyone that contributed to our previous issues – Cinephilia,Women in Film, The Gaze and Pride. Currently, we are accepting submissions for our next issue – Storytelling – which will launch on Monday 5th of September. Please send your submissions ...