Author Faith Everard

All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies – Watership Down Though Dai zek lo (Running on Karma, Johnnie To, 2003) follows Big (Andy Lau), a former monk who demonstrates martial prowes...

“Who were we, when we were who we were back then? Who would we have become if we’d done differently…?” – Kylie Minogue in Holy Motors Nothing ever feels quite real in Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012), even wh...

“A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.” Gough Whitlam, 1985 Rather than being co...

It's not that I've let my heart turn to stone, but I no longer have any tears to shed. Who was it that turned me into this kind of woman… When the war ended, Tokyo became a city of savages. It was kill or be ki...

Love is a bohemian child, It has never, never known the law, If you don't love me, I love you; If I love you, watch out!  – Translated from George Bizet’s Carmen, “Habanera” No silent film was ever truly...

"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; " 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy…" "Oh no, no!" said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stai...

In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half a dozen colts Dropped in some wilderness of the broken world, Yet new as if they had come ...

It’s strange to witness a film so visually bewitching and yet so narratively disorganised. Fūng gip (The Secret, Ann Hui, 1979) is such a film: completely beautiful, dark, and unsettling, yet at times incoheren...

“His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.”” -   Anthony, in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. For Vittorio and Paolo T...

The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them. ― ...

The rhythmic cogs of the machinery click and shuffle, a steady beat emerges with each press of the tin, each bubble of the milk. A behemoth of industrial power, the milk-cannery seems to twitch and stir as thou...

Seven jellyfishes, eight jellybabies, Wanna drown in the water and stay dead for ages. Nine jellyfishes, ten jellyfishes, Give me a boyfriend who isn’t amphibious! - Golden and Silver , The Lure This Polish m...

“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide” - Emily Brontë, Stanzas When the word “tomboy” first came into usage in the mid-16th century, it described a boisterous...

“This was my first film. I knew these people who all had red hair and were part of the family. They were also alike in character, extreme and stubborn. Their drive in the country begins an intrigue of awesome...