The Zone of Interest, Ramy Youssef and Miu Miu's Women's Tales
Essential film reading on A Rabbit's Foot this week.
The birds still sing at Auschwitz: on Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’
“Prior to watching The Zone of Interest, I believed it barbaric to make a narrative film about Auschwitz. Michael Haneke’s condemnation of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List puts it best: “The mere idea of trying to draw and create suspense out of the question of whether gas or water is going to come out of the showerhead to me is unspeakable.” Responding to Jonathan Glazer's Oscar acceptance speech, Lillian Crawford reflects on The Zone of Interest, exploring what makes it an ethical portrayal of the Holocaust, and where other films have failed.
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Ramy Youssef: “The art I love asks beautiful questions of the human condition”
“The art that I love asks beautiful questions of the human condition…” In an exclusive interview with actor, writer, director and comedian Ramy Youssef, the multi-hyphenate discusses acting opposite Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone Poor Things, why he’s protesting loudly in support of a ceasefire in Gaza and his new stand up tour Ramy Youssef: More Feelings. “The prescription combo of prayer and therapy is pretty unbeatable already. But I do like to lock up the phones. I want my audience to show up and be there. How often are you not asleep and not looking at your phone for longer than 90 minutes? That’s what intimacy is now.”
Miu Miu Women’s Tales: martial arts is a medium of emotion
New Wave Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui screened her new short I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear last week as part of the latest edition of Miu Miu’s acclaimed Women’s Tales series. The film, 27th in a line of shorts created for Miu Miu by both legendary and up-and-coming women filmmakers, beautifully combines Chui Mui’s love for martial arts (her previous film ‘Barbarian Invasion’ would make for an apt double feature here) with a narrative of self-discovery and spiritual affirmation.
Knox’s ‘We Forgot To Break Up’ reinvents 2000s nostalgia-core
To celebrate her Toronto-punk inspired new feature We Forgot To Break Up premiering at BFI Flare Film Festival this past weekend, we sat down with filmmaker Knox to discuss Canadian 2000s Nostalgia-core, the “rainbow-ification” of queer culture, the Toronto music scene, and why the best music biopics are honest. “I would rather watch a fictional biopic of Freddie Mercury than some state-sanctioned, sanitised version of his story. My complaint about Bohemian Rhapsody was that Freddie Mercury was a hedonist […] and that was not present in the movie. Where was the fucking?”
