Ramsay’s characters, lost in their own daydreams, create worlds out of piles of food to break free from their painful realities.
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My Dinner With Cinema: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Using food, Hirokazu Kore-eda grounds his body of work within the mores of social realism, threading themes of family and memory.
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My Dinner With Cinema: Agnes Varda
The foods featured in Varda’s films reflect the simple staples of everyday life – as equally nourishing as they are sublime.
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My Dinner With Cinema: Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino’s irredeemable characters find themselves in direct incongruity between food and violence.
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My Dinner With Cinema: Wong Kar-wai
In the first edition of Rough Cut’s new video essay series centering on food in cinema, Tyrie Aspinall pieces together images from Wong Kar-wai’s sensuous filmography.
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Video Essay: Big Duck Richie
A celebration of those times when a guy just comes into your workplace and dances.
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Video Essay: Hae-Mi Monroe
Ivana Brehas presents a side-by-side comparison of two pivotal dance scenes from Burning (2018) and The Misfits (1961), finding parallels between characters decades and continents apart.
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Video Essay: ‘Last Year At Marienbad’ and The Doobie Brother’s ‘What A Fool Believes’ Are About The Same Thing
Eliza Janssen finds an unlikely connection between Alain Resnais’ 1961 arthouse drama and a 70s yacht-rock single.
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