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Leonie Naughton – Academic Iconoclast

They say first impressions are important. I vividly remember the first time I saw Leonie. Thin, elegant and dressed entirely in black, with a shock of cropped, blond hair and a mouth defined by outrageously outré lipstick – she made a memorable impact as she entered the lecture theatre. Leonie’s approach to teaching film matched her singular style. She offered …

A Couch in New York : Chantal Akerman and Sex in the City

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Chantal Akerman’s most recent film, La captive (France/Belgium 2000), has been described as the latest contribution to a small cluster of works within her oeuvre that could be loosely categorised as “stories of lovers in the city” [1] . La captive thus completes a trilogy inaugurated with Nuit et jour (France/Belgium/Switzerland 1991) and developed in A Couch in New York/Un divan à New …

B-girls, dykes and doubles: Kiss Me Deadly and the legacy of “late noir“

Uploaded 30 June 2000 Robert Aldrich’s oeuvre has been described as firmly situated in a “man’s world, [where] the talk is rough, the camaraderie close, and the action violent and heroic”.[1] If it is a man’s world in Kiss Me Deadly (USA 1955), it is conversely a world dominated by women. In this early Aldrich work, the talk is as much characterised …