Cinema Lockdown Diaries | STRAND Magazine

Sep 11, 20204 min read

Netflix can’t match the Charm of Independent Cinemas

Lockdown made us all reconnect with our roots. Driving home from London on the 18th March, my car piled high with boxes of hastily packed...

Sep 10, 20203 min read

It’s Not All Bad: Lockdown Cinema and The Evolution of Film

Stanley Kubrick famously claimed that ‘the best education in film is to make one.’ In this rare departure from his infamous cynicism, he...

Sep 9, 20203 min read

A Cinematic Journey in Paris (under lockdown)

As I walked out of a late screening of Little Women by Greta Gerwig at Les 3 Luxembourg, an independent cinema located near Odéon in the...

Sep 8, 20205 min read

The Cinematic Pendulum

I have a habit of repeat watching, and sometimes this is for a purpose I believe to be valid. When people kept praising Call Me By Your...

Sep 6, 20203 min read

Cinema Lockdown Diaries: The Age of Stay-at-Home-Cinema

As I'm sure you're all so tired of hearing, we're in strange times, hard times, unprecedented times and in the middle of all this we are...

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