Cinema Body Cinema Mind is a home for thinking and feeling our way through film. I explore how movies work on us—not just in our heads, but in our senses, memories, and everyday lives through essays, podcast episodes, and video lectures.
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A second batch of reflections from Edinburgh featuring Kore-eda’s Sci-Fi, Ken Burns in conversation, Fringe Top Gun Parody, and Dutch dystopia First Zone
Notes on the Film Festival, the Fringe, and the spaces of thought in between.
What the discourse surrounding IMAX70mm as the "gold standard" way to watch The Odyssey reveals about contemporary cinema culture
Also, some post-holiday reflections, and an outline of the upcoming schedule and content on Cinema Body/Cinema Mind
I was inspired to write this piece after seeing Max Ophüls Caught (1949) and Olive Wilde's The Invite (2026) with Victor Perkins in-depth form of analytical criticism at the forefront of my mind.
Some images and thoughts from île de Ré on France's Atlantic coast.
A wide-ranging discussion on the economics, ethics and pleasures of making films inside and outside the cinemas centre of power
Methods of formal analysis in the context of genre.
Methods of Formal Analysis in the context of genre
Forms and approaches to Interpretation
This review was originally a Substack Note that i've expanded into a full article.
