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Film

Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage

Siobhan McKeown visits the San Francisco locations and explores the multiplicity of meanings in Hitchcock's iconic 1958 picture, which is screening all this month at BFI Southbank. Photos by Darren Ambrose
Books

Boredom Is An Energy: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Reviewed

David Foster Wallace's last novel introduced the idea of boredom as a tool of anti-capitalism and a state to be relished in, says Siobhan McKeown
Books

Respect My Sociopathy! An Extract And Reviews Of Recent Zero Publications

Siobhan McKeown reviews two new Zero titles and we share an extract from _Why We Love Sociopaths_
Film

Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life Reviewed

Siobhan McKeown attends a Human Rights Watch Film Festival preview of Werner Herzog's new documentary feature, now on nationwide release
Black Sky Thinking

The Church Of The New Atheism: Alain De Botton’s Epistles Examined

Siobhan McKeown ploughs through Alan De Botton's Religion For Atheists and finds it - along with other New Atheist texts - lacking
Film

Techniques Of Terror: Carl Dreyer’s Danish Gothic Dissected

Currently the subject of a complete retrospective at BFI Southbank, early 20th century auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer was a pioneer of "horror in its purest form". Siobhan McKeown explains his technical mastery

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