Iconoclast. Avant-garde Black feminist scholar. Unflinching pop culture critic. The inimitable Gloria Jean Watkins – best known by her pen name ‘bell hooks’ – died one year ago. To mark the anniversary, Jan Asante revisits her landmark Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies and other irresistible offerings.
In our February 1994 issue, Scorsese spoke to lan Christie about his love of genre, his passion for ritual and his Eisenstein-like approach to editing.
The rhythms and rituals of rural life have seldom been conspicuous in British cinema. But in this feature from our August 2010 issue, Rob Young looks back to feature films of the 1960s and 70s, and to documentaries across the decades, and finds that traces of the ‘old, weird Britain’ can still be unearthed.