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…
Tag: Barry Adamson
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…

