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Pieces of Reality: Philip Corner at Café Oto in London
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto.
Stories we cannot bear: Killed Negatives at Whitechapel Gallery
Most of us have gazed at the face of the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph or lingered over the beds, towels, and chairs in houses belonging to tenant ...
London Film Festival: The Glorious Uncertainty of Certain Women
On Saturday, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women claimed the top prize at the festival awards. It’s entirely deserved, writes Joanna Pocock.
Gentrification Nation: Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights
Frederick Wiseman’s “reality fiction” shows us that when individuals lose out to corporate money and interests, they are forced to give up their sense of belonging, shared histories and hope—the ...
Blacking Out and the Female Experience: An Interview with Sarah Hepola
In our society alcohol is socially acceptable, but if you had to take heroin in order to have sex, people would see that as toxic.
Spinster, Schminster: The Destruction of a Perfectly Good Word
There is a good book to be written about spinsterhood, writes Joanna Pocock, but Kate Bolick’s Spinster isn’t it.
Force Majeure and the Artifice of Control
Joanna Pocock analyses the significance of control in Richard Östlund’s Force Majeure.
Portraiture in the Age of the Selfie: Mirror at the Frith Street Gallery
Wandering around Mirror, the Frith Street Gallery’s summer show, Joanna Pocock struggles to make sense of it. On the one hand, it’s about portraiture – but on the other hand, ...
The Experience Of Film: Death of the Film Shop
A.K.A. selling off the proverbial bunnies
Feature Film: A Hard Day’s Night
A Hard Day’s Night is an explosion of joy onto the bleak, bombed out cultural landscape of post-war Britain.
Feature Film: The Golden Dream
Diego Quemada-Diez’s film, The Golden Dream, tells the story of three young Guatemalans attempting to cross the border to the United States.
Feature Film: We Are the Best!
Sweden’s Lukas Moodysson taps into the feminine punk-rock spirit of Pussy Riot in his latest film about three teenage girls standing against the adult world
Feature Film: Stranger by the Lake
A gay cruising spot by a lake in southern France becomes the scene for a murder and sexual desire. Alain Guiraudie sensually explores love and lust under a cruel sun.
Empty Factories, Poisonous Cheesecake and American Celebrities: Lynch, Burroughs and Warhol at The Photographers’ Gallery
In their own ways, David Lynch, William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol have all encapsulated massive cultural moments in US art and literature. Joanna Pocock reviews a showcase of their ...
LFF: Stop the Pounding Heart
The third of Roberto Minervini’s Texas Trilogy, Stop the Pounding Heart is a subtle, fragmented piece about rural Christian America
LFF: Night Moves
The futility of political activism – Kelly Reichardt delivers a compelling movie about a difficult subject, a group of eco-activists who commit an extreme act for a noble cause
LFF: Computer Chess
Charming, funny and humane – Andrew Bujalski continues the mumblecore tradition with a film about the members of a chess tournament, set in the 1980s
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LFF: My Fathers, My Mother and Me
Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary of his return to Friedrichshof, Otto Muehl’s free-loving commune, where Robert grew up with his mother
LFF: As I Lay Dying
James Franco adapts the ‘unfilmable’ William Faulkner modern classic for the big screen
Feature Film: For Ellen
Although Paul Dano delivers a committed performance in For Ellen, his character is not quite believable. The rock-and-roller image – with chipped black nail polish, slicked back hair and leather ...