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Author James Slaymaker

James Slaymaker

James Slaymaker is a freelance critic and filmmaker from Dorset, UK. He has written for a number of online and print film publications such as MUBI Notebook, Film international, Bright Lights Film Journal, Little White Lies, Vague Visages, Alternate Takes, Popmatters, The Vulgar Cinema, Mcsweeney’s.net and Sound on Sight. He’s also a contributor to the book Hard to Get: The Films and Female Characters of Howard Hawks. He is the the author of the upcoming books Time is Luck: The Life and Cinema of Michael Mann (2019) and No Comment: Jean-Luc Godard and Post-Cinema (2021).

Cinema Never Dies: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames and The Ontology of the Digital Image

James Slaymaker
October 2019
Feature Articles
24 Frames, the final feature from master Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, grew out of an abandoned project the auteur had been developing in conjunction with the Louvre. The plan was to bring a number of ico...
Cosmopolis

“I Reach Out My Hand and What Do I Feel?”: Thematising Digitisation in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis

James Slaymaker
September 2017
Feature Articles
By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it had become abundantly clear that digital methods of cinematography and distribution had eclipsed the analogue in the mainstream cinema industry. Much of th...
Abel Ferrara

Late Capitalist Atrocity Exhibition: Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York

James Slaymaker
March 2016
Mono No Aware: The Films of Abel Ferrara, 2005-2015
It’s difficult not to detect the influence of Pasolini on Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York (2014), and not only due to the fact that Ferrara was reportedly undertaking vast amounts of research for his yet-to-...

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