Author Laleen Jayamanne

Real depression is boring, there’s not usually a lot of cinematic stuff going on. And Lars had a very creative way of making it not boring. – Kirsten Dunst ‘Why is it’, the author asked ‘that all men who ...

Cate Blanchett: “There’s so much to talk about.” Todd Field: “There’s a lot to talk about.” CB: “In fact, it’s very hard to pin the movie down, which is its strength.” CB: “…a film that is asking big metaphy...

“It was the greatest Carnival Attraction I’d ever seen… His Super Power was Music.” - Colonel Tom Parker An Australian Film Brand With just six films over thirty years (1992-2022), Baz Luhrmann and his crea...

“…I am dispended”, says Dujuan Hoosan, the Arrente/Garrwa little Aboriginal boy at the centre of the documentary, In My Blood it Runs (2020). “… suspended”, corrects his mother. But “dispended” like “Desperance...

We hear the voices of a father and a son talking to each other over a black screen (accompanied by soft string music), in the very opening moments of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018, Marvel Studios). But we ...

(London: British Film Institute, 2002) Gayatri Chatterjee's book on the Indian epic film Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957) is one of a series of books that the British Film Institute has commissioned on the ...

Jayamanne argues that, drawing on traditions of painting and eliciting a brand of performance, Kubrick and Shahani mobilise ornamentation to create femininity as a metamorphic force.

Six characters in search of (variously) a lost play, a stolen ring, has-been and would-be lovers and who knows what, finally converge on a stage set for Pirandello's play, As you desire me. Such a mix of ob...