The student newspaper of Imperial College London
The student newspaper of Imperial College London
Keep the Cat Free
Section Editor: Oliver Weir
The film section covers new film releases, classic film recommendations and industry trends
Despite the desolation, the cruelty, and the decay, there is no other film I know of that has a more humanitarian message. It exudes a love for humanity that is often lost in the world.
I think everyone has a soft spot for silly movies. Adam Sandler’s career-long monopoly on this subgenre would make you think he’d be good at them now.
Until Saint Maud, I had not been aware as to just how unsettling a movie can be when religious possession is entirely ideological, self-driven, and delusional.
Thought of as “the first true horror film” by Roger Ebert, Caligari was a visual and thematic turn of pace for cinema at the time.
In these strange and uncertain times, I thought I’d give an update on what I’m doing in quarantine; you might even get a few film recommendations out of it
Imagine a university only for women, imagine lecture halls full of people that can sit less than 2 meters apart. Now, imagine they can spend their degree analysing works of art - welcome to the world of Mona Lisa Smile, also known as Dead Poets Society vol. 2
Film Editor Oliver Weir recommends that you use this QR code to watch Michael Cimino's 1978 Best Picture winner 'The Deer Hunter' for free
Film Editor Oliver Weir reviews the new Aaron Sorkin film 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' which is streaming now on Netflix
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Film Editor Oliver Weir reviews Nick Rowland's debut feature film 'Calm With Horses' which is streaming on Netflix now
Why should we bother with surreal film? Film editor Oliver Weir argues the case for this often misunderstood subgenre by way of the first Lynchian masterpiece: Eraserhead
Film editor Oliver Weir discusses the 1988 film - "A Short Film about Love" by Krzysztof Kieślowski, the the sixth instalment in the famous Decalogue series calling it a a virtuosic demonstration of filmmaking
Film Editor Oliver Weir discusses the 2012 classic 'The Act of Killing' about the perpetrators of the 1965/66 Indonesian massacres which took the lives of over 1,000,000 communists, farmers, union members, intellectuals, and ethnic Chinese. Director Joshua Oppenheimer asks the perpetrators to recreate the heinous acts that they committed in an attempt to unearth their motivations. They are more than happy to do this and see it as an opportunity to commit to film a history they are proud of.
Film editor Oliver Weir looks back on the classic film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring about a monk's apprentice who lives on a pond in rural Korea
Film editor Oliver Weir shows you how to see a great film, completely free. This week he watched L.A. Confidential, the gritty character study of three LAPD police officers
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