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String Theory (or, How Long is a Piece of Film?)
Neil Archer, Senior Lecturer in Film As octogenarian filmmakers go, is there any fiercer generator of clickbait than Martin Scorsese? In 2019, a throwaway comment in Empire kicked off a shitstorm around whether or not Marvel movies ‘are cinema’. Now, in a slightly less shitstormy way – with the release of his new film, the…
(Not) The End of Cinema
The great French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard died this week. Keele’s Neil Archer gives three good reasons to return to his films. I have to confess that I haven’t watched a new Godard film for years. In an alternate universe, such a confession might send me to the Bastille for heresy. But let me qualify it.…
Only Disconnect
As Facebook’s stock plummets, Neil Archer, whose new book on The Social Network is published this month, argues why the Facebook movie is as timely as ever. Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg is now $29 billion poorer than he was at the start of 2022. This after a 2021 in which his company, now labelled ‘Meta’, but…
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