Cult’s time, place and audience at LFF 2023

Cult’s time, place and audience at LFF 2023

Cult’s time, place and audience at LFF 2023 first published by BFI (under the title LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival), 6 October 2023 The phrase ‘instant cult’, like ‘instant classic’, involves a paradox, even an oxymoron, with the qualifier ‘instant’ adding an element that goes very much against…

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In Fabric (2018)

In Fabric opens with a montage. After a pair of scissors is seen cutting open a cardboard box to reveal a red dress within, a succession of disparate stills plays over the credits. Department store interiors. A rope-bound hand in a bed. A face at a window. Women carrying a coffin indoors. The imprint of…