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Slow criticism from the end of the world.
Journal based in South East London.
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We are excited to announce Volume 21: Totally Spies, a 7-essay anthology of writing on The Spy Film genre. Design by Jeremy Arblaster (@jj_designed ). The issue’s print edition will available at stockists in October. Right now, you can read the issue’s introduction by Ben Flanagan (@manlikeflan ), at cinemayearzero[dot]com. Comment 🕵‍♂️ for the link! Subscribers are entitled to a complimentary copy of the print issue. Get in touch to claim yours! In the issue: @manlikeflan 's editorial briefs new agents @blaiseradley on Villains in Spione Kenny Nixon on Femmes Fatales in Tsui Hark and von Sternberg @sam.moore94 on spies in the domestic sphere @esmepartii on Tashlin’s spy spoofs @registrosradio on Hollywood’s Sandinistas @kush__tea on CIA idiocy in Burn After Reading @samuel_d_4bz with a classified crossword protocol #Cinema #SpyFilm #Movies #FilmCriticism taken in Kremlin by @cinemayearzero
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Cinema Year Zero is excited to announce that we are partnering with Cinema Rediscovered Festival 2026. The festival, which takes place in Bristol from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th July, focuses on reviving restored and forgotten films from the history of cinema. It is Britain’s leading hub for repertory cinema, which has endured over the last decade through its dedicated audience focus. From us, you can expect a new essay for each day of the festival on a film in the programme. These will be available on our website, and in print at Watershed. Friday 24th July: we host Les Sièges de l’Alcazar post-screening discussion of the film’s depiction of the pratfalls of cinephilia at Watershed café/bar Across the weekend we will also host a Critics Salon, featuring readings from the commissioned essayists along with conversation about our critical practices. Free to attend, with more details to follow. Our full newsletter announcement, featuring 10 highlights from the festival, is out now at cinemayearzero[dot]com Vive Le Cinema! Graphic design: @jj_designed Preview contributors: @smellisha on Dante @nosniktamot on Chabrol @josephowen__ on Tarkovsky @manlikeflan on Littin @redrightman on Buscemi and May @devzdevzdevz on Aardman @kush__tea on Tsai @blaiseradley on Bava @orla_p_smith on Chronically Online #cinemarediscovered #bristol #cinema #filmfestival #Film taken in Watershed Cinema by @cinemayearzero
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Cinema Year ‘26, our monthly review supplement, continues. In September, we found the very limits of cinema with a fantastical documentary, a cinephile’s stage production, an American comic in Sirk-land, a Spanish auteur-miniseries, and efforts to survive the latest video game adaptation. @kush__tea on Better Go Mad in the Wild @manlikeflan on Letterboxd: The Opera (image credit: Ryan Edgington) @devzdevzdevz on Maddie’s Secret @nikolaiphoya on La mesías @blaiseradley on Resident Evil Read now at cinemayearzero[dot]com. Comment ♍️ for the link! #Cinema #Film #ResidentEvil #Letterboxd #Movie taken in Raccoon City by @cinemayearzero
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Today, Cinema Year Zero presents a review of Erika Balsom’s The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture, out now via @columbiauniversitypress Read it now at cinemayearzero[dot]com or comment 📖 for the link! "Balsom says in the book’s coda that it is the closest she will ever get to autobiography. Fittingly, the contents page reads like a statement of research interests for an academic, a skin Balsom is sometimes reluctant to shed." -Tom de Lancy Green (@nosniktamot ) #film #ErikaBalsom #FilmCriticism #Essay #Cinema taken in BFI IMAX by @cinemayearzero
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New online: “Just a Horrible Phase”: On Pumpkin and Inter-ability “Pumpkin (2002) is the film in question, boasting a producer credit from Andrea Sperling (But I’m a Cheerleader, 1999) and an executive producer credit from Francis Ford Coppola. Co-directors Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder share just three directing/writing credits , and it is by a vast margin the most enduring of the bunch. This strange mix of personalities behind the camera is a solid gauge of how off-the-rails this 2002 time capsule becomes, but the reason it’s gained cult status is instantly clear; this film wields a satirical blade so serrated that it often commits the exact social violations it intends to critique.” We hadn’t come across 2002’s Pumpkin before Tyler Thier approached us about today’s essay. We’re happy he did, because it’s a great piece, but having watched the film, we are left somewhat frightened by the cultural detritus of the 2000s. If a film as morally contradictory as Pumpkin has been half-forgotten, what other horrors are out there waiting to be uncovered? Tyler is a critic and scholar based in NYC. He is currently working on his first book. Read it now at cinemayearzero[dot]com or via the link in bio. 🎃 #film #pumpkin #ChristinaRicci #Essay #Cinema taken in Pumpkin Village by @cinemayearzero
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Looking forward to the BFI’s Film in Print section of the London Film Festival, where the magazine will be appearing on a panel alongside @cinemayearzero and @sweetthangzine about making independent film publications. Tickets are free! And available to book from the 1st of October. by @cinemayearzero
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The new edition of @cinemayearzero Totally Spies arrived! Just in time for a Rambling Cinema film at @the___carousel this Tuesday - the delightful nursing home spy thriller comedy documentary (that's a lot of genres) THE MOLE AGENT. Drop in for a film, a drink, a mag and a chat! 📍 @the___carousel 🗓️ Sept 1st 🕖 8pm 🎟 Pay what you feel Link in bio for tickets! taken in The Carousel by @cinemayearzero
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New on the site: Malcom Lowe’s two-part report from Sarajevo Film Festival 2026. Part 1 focuses on the “Competition” and “Dealing with the Past” programmes, all features from Southeastern Europe which are the festival’s bread and butter. Then in Part 2, Lowe moves on to three films that premiered at Cannes, and the attempts of their directors to grapple with contemporary politics. Titles covered include: Small Things, Zvonimir Jurić Shame and Money, Visar Morina Peacemaker, Ivan Ramljak The Balkan Cowboy, Dragana Jurišić Fatherland, Paweł Pawlikowski Fjord, Cristian Mungiu Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev Read it now at cinemayearzero[dot]com #film #filmfestival #Sarajevo #sarajevofilmfestival #32ndSFF by @cinemayearzero
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Cinema Year ‘26, our monthly review supplement, continues. This August, The Final Film Festival showcased the city’s independent circuit with an extensive programme of over 50 films. We chose to focus this month’s reviews on their “In Competition” strand, which aimed to spotlight features by exciting local filmmakers, alongside work from around the globe which fits the festival’s DIY ethos. @rosedymock on National Sport (@citizendrain ) @nosniktamot on Hard-Time Lover @josephowen__ on Eramus (@savestate.memorial) @blaiseradley on Softshell @bethaningman on Plane Film (@orla_p_smith ) @registrosradio on Sitting Idle (@luketunmogun ) @kush__tea on Belief is Not Without Pathos (@owenvintsz ) Don’t forget to subscribe at cinemayearzero[dot]com to receive this and more film writing direct to your inbox. And if you missed our “Totally Spies” magazine launch, there will be another chance to pick up a copy on 1st September at The Carousel in Nottingham, where we will be screening The Mole Agent. Then on 4th September, we are back at The Cinema Museum for the penultimate edition of NOT BY LYNCH: Under The Silver Lake. There might just be a few copies of the issue available there too. taken in London, United Kingdom by @cinemayearzero
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NOT BY LYNCH returns on Friday 4 September at @the_cinema_museum , with David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake (2018). A labyrinthine neo-noir of conspiracy, codes, pop culture and paranoia, following an aimless young man through the hidden passageways of Los Angeles in search of a woman who has mysteriously disappeared. The screening will be introduced and accompanied by a new programme note by critic and Cinema Year Zero managing editor, @manlikeflan . booklet available exclusively on the night designed by @jj_designed. Curated by @hairyabao Presented in collaboration with @cinemayearzero About UNDER THE SILVER LAKE When Sam (Andrew Garfield) meets a mysterious neighbour by his apartment pool, only for her to vanish the following day, his search sends him spiralling through an increasingly strange Los Angeles. Songs conceal secret messages, maps become codes, urban legends acquire the force of reality, and seemingly trivial fragments of popular culture begin to suggest the presence of an enormous conspiracy beneath the surface of everyday life. Following It Follows, David Robert Mitchell turns the familiar terrain of the Los Angeles noir into something sprawling, comic and deeply uncanny: a city saturated with movies, music, advertising and obsolete cultural debris, in which the desire to discover what everything “means” becomes its own form of madness. Produced long after "Lynchian" had entered our cultural vocabulary, Under the Silver Lake approaches the other side of the season’s central question. Its Los Angeles inevitably recalls Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway: seductive and threatening, familiar and unreal, its ordinary surfaces forever threatening to reveal another world underneath. But Mitchell transforms these affinities into something distinctly contemporary — a paranoid vision of life inside an endless maze of images, signs and stories. 🎟 Friday 4 September, 7.30 pm 📍 The Cinema Museum, London 🔗 cinemamuseum[dot]org[dot]uk taken in The Cinema Museum by @cinemayearzero
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We are going on tour! Cinema Year Zero’s next mission takes us to Nottingham, where we rendezvous with attaché @ramblingcinema for a full intel sweep on all things Totally Spies. Then, we slip into deep cover to bring you The Mole Agent at @the___carousel Your ticket includes a free print copy of our latest issue, “Totally Spies”, all classified. In the issue: @manlikeflan's editorial briefs new agents @blaiseradley on Villains in Spione Kenny Nixon on Femmes Fatales in Tsui Hark and von Sternberg @sam.moore94 on spies in the domestic sphere @esmepartii on Tashlin’s spy spoofs @registrosradio on Hollywood’s Sandinistas @kush__tea on CIA idiocy in Burn After Reading @samuel_d_4bz with a classified crossword protocol designed by @jj_designed You can book tickets at The Carousel box office, or via the link in our bio. END TRANSMISSION. taken in The Carousel by @cinemayearzero
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Cinema Year ‘26, our monthly review supplement, continues. In July, we remembered summers past, entered a wine competition, ate the rich, and defied Zeus’ law. @bethaningman on Blue Heron @esmepartii on The Napa Boys @farzadazimbeik on Rosebush Pruning @kush__tea on The Odyssey Don’t forget to subscribe at cinemayearzero[dot]com to receive this and more film writing direct to your inbox. Next Saturday, 8th August, we launch our new issue TOTALLY SPIES at @thecastlecinema with a screening of Roy Orbison confederate-spy caper The Fastest Guitar Alive. Presented as part of @tff_festival . Tickets via the link in bio. taken in Napa Valley by @cinemayearzero
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