Author Amelia Leonard

Adapted from Fannie Hurst’s 1933 bestseller, Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl, 1934) arose from a cultural moment in which women’s stories were at once voraciously consumed yet frequently belittled. Hurst’s fic...

For a film addressing matters of political oppression, state sponsored disappearances and forced labour camps, one wouldn’t be blamed for thinking they’re in for a trying time with Jiri Menzel’s Skřivánci na ni...

Presenting as a bizarre jigsaw puzzle of slow cinema motifs, surrealist musical numbers, a looming climate crisis, and highly explicit sex, Tsai Ming-Liang’s Tian bian yi duo yun (The Wayward Cloud, 2005)  – on...