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The Lens|Golden Anniversaries

Wake in Fright

Revisiting the Cinematic Landmarks of 1971

by Andrew Wyatt - Apr 13, 2021

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Three teenage girls sit together on the roof of a car shortly after sunset.
The LensFeb 5, 2021byKayla McCulloch

Cusp

A woman on her hands and knees on the floor being menaced by a partly-offscreen figure holding a bloody sickle.
The LensFeb 1, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for January 2021

A laughing, middle aged man stands with his arms around the shoulders of two young girls.
The LensJan 28, 2021byKayla McCulloch

Our Friend

The sillouette of a young man's head and shoulders in profile, backlit by yellow-orange flames.
The LensJan 26, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

Identifying Features

A young blond woman dressed in a business outfit with blouse, jacket, and skirt sits on a lounge seat in a bar, apparently half asleep.
The LensJan 22, 2021byKayla McCulloch

Promising Young Woman

A family consisting of a father, mother, and seven children of varying ages walk through a field of high grass and herbs, as a city looms in the background.
The LensJan 20, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

Acasa, My Home

A collage of images from 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things', 'First Cow', 'Miss Americana', 'Our Sound', 'Shirley', and 'Bacurau'.
The LensJan 18, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

The Best Films of 2020

Jessica Campbell
The LensJan 14, 2021byCliff Froehlich

Jessica Campbell

A collage of images from 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons,' 'evermore', 'We Are Who We Are', 'Bob's Burgers', "Stary Night", and 'Felicity'.
The LensJan 11, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

Better Things: The Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020

Konstantina Mantelos is a mother-to-be in the clutches of Satanists in Justin G. Dyck's 'Anything for Jackson'.
The LensJan 4, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for December 2020

A collage incorporating fragments of still images from multiple 2020 horror films.
The LensJan 1, 2021byAndrew Wyatt

The Best Horror Films of 2020

Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León's 'The Wolf House' presents a nightmarish vision inspired by the real-world horrors of cult colony in Chile.
The LensDec 22, 2020byAndrew Wyatt

The Wolf House

Audrey Hepburn behind the glamorous image is dissected in Helena Coan's 'Audrey: More Than an Icon'.
The LensDec 21, 2020byKayla McCulloch

Audrey: More Than an Icon

Mads Mikkelsen (center-left, front) is a high school teacher who experiments with perpetual inebriation in Thomas Vinterberg's 'Another Round'.
The LensDec 17, 2020byAndrew Wyatt

Another Round

Atsuko Maeda (center) is a woman whose inner resolve is tested during a travel show shoot in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'To the Ends of the Earth'.
The LensDec 15, 2020byJoshua Ray

Double Take: Bright Future / To the Ends of the Earth

Gary Oldman (center, front) plays screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz in David Fincher's 'Mank'.
The LensDec 11, 2020byKayla McCulloch

Mank

Dan Beirne is a shoe-sniffing version of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Matthew Rankin's 'The Twentieth Century'.
The LensDec 8, 2020byAndrew Wyatt

The Twentieth Century

A high-tech assassin becomes trapped in a psychic nightmare in Brandon Cronenberg's 'Possessor'.
The LensDec 5, 2020byAndrew Wyatt

Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for November 2020

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