Cinema Year Zero

Dec 12 2024 122 ep. 9 mins 41

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Audio versions of essays from Cinema Year Zero

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INTRO | HALLMARK

Dec 12 2024 4 mins

Christmas, again.

DECK THE HEART | HALLMARK

Dec 12 2024 9 mins

Earlier this autumn, long before the pitch call for this Christmas edition of CYZ landed in my inbox, while absentmindedly scrolling through TikTok I came across a video by user @livgrace_x with the caption “If you live in liverpool.. wait for the end …”.

THE SECRETS OF BELLA VISTA | HALLMARK

Dec 12 2024 6 mins

Woke Hallmark Movies DESTROYING Christmas

MR ST. NICK | HALLMARK

Dec 12 2024 6 mins

Kelsey Grammer has stolen valour.

EVE'S CHRISTMAS | HALLMARK

Dec 12 2024 8 mins

In 2004, a movie was released about the joyous reclamation of youthful romance through time travel, and the rejection of hard-bitten corporate life in favour of downhome suburban bliss.

CHRISTMAS IN NOTTING HILL | HALLMARK

Dec 12 2024 7 mins

It’s a cold winter’s night in the UK, and the dazzling floodlights of AFC Newbourne’s home ground are visible for miles in every direction across the London skyline, each dappled beam only matched in reach by the echoing caterwauls of the staunchly loyal blues fans.

INTRO | PIRATES!

Oct 30 2024 3 mins

Something unspoken lies underneath the whole of cinephilia. Well, not exactly unspoken.

LA ROUE | PIRATES!

Oct 30 2024 10 mins

I grew up in a pulseless nothing-ville outside a certain Canadian metropolis.

HARD TIMES | PIRATES!

Oct 30 2024 8 mins

For the estimable cineastes confused by last year’s dispatch, may I state for the record: I love the Locarno Film Festival.

PERIPHERAL PIRATES | PIRATES!

Oct 30 2024 8 mins

Swashbuckling action, scoundrelly antics, and even tattered iconography are all mere ornaments of what the act of piracy actually entails.