Some serious strawman takes on One Battle After Another. Like: “It's not at the level of The Battle of Algiers in its ideological sincerity”. No shit. It's a product of mainstream film industry in 2025. Pontecorvo was an actual fucking political Marxist. PTA is from the San Fernando Valley FFS.

The Americans are getting an old-fashioned shellacking in the Ryder Cup. It's absolutely wonderful.

A repost of my audio-essay entitled The Cinematic Voice, inspired by two films I saw this week: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest and Alan J. Pakula’s Klute. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

open.substack.com/pub/dariolli... I was amazed to see that there is no dedicated book that analyses contemporary cinema through the conceptual lens of absurdism. In this latest Substack piece, I schematise something of a broad & accessible entry point using recent releases as a springboard.

open.substack.com/pub/dariolli... I was amazed to see that there is no dedicated book that analyses contemporary cinema through the conceptual lens of absurdism. In this latest Substack piece, I schematise something of a broad & accessible entry point using recent releases as a springboard.

A repost of my audio-essay entitled The Cinematic Voice, inspired by two films I saw this week: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest and Alan J. Pakula’s Klute. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

So Trump is fucking up the US open tennis too.

On leaving academia without a safety net: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxqw... Swabreen Bakr's style amalgamates a journalistic background with the platform fluency of a digital marketer. But woven through the fabric of her pieces is a clear social awareness that doesn’t take pleasure - as cinema’s lifeforce - for granted.

Materialists attempts to mine the cynical zeigiest of modern relationships, but does Celine Song's follow up to Past Lives get beyond empty reductionism & cliche in it's reflections on dating & love? open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

On leaving academia without a safety net: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

In this episode, of The Cinematologists Podcast we go deep on the immense legacy and genius of Akira Kurosawa: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

In this episode, of The Cinematologists Podcast we go deep on the immense legacy and genius of Akira Kurosawa: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Summer reading: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Some writing on some reading and watching, while sweltering in Romania: dariollinares.substack.com/p/from-braso...

The latest episode of The Cinematologists is a contribution to the Students on Screen project convened by Dr Kay Calver and Dr Bethan Michael-Fox, which explores screen representations of students across a plethora of Global screen media forms. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

My second piece from Cinema Rediscovered focuses on three, very different, but equally vivid female lead performances: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

My second piece from Cinema Rediscovered focuses on three, very different, but equally vivid female lead performances: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

open.substack.com/pub/dariolli... First piece from Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol.

Now listening: when two of your favourite film podcasters collide! @darioll.bsky.social @www.johnbleasdale.com open.spotify.com/episode/3f84...

My first ever review in Sight and Sound: Four Letters of Love, an adaptation of Niall William’s best selling novel, directed by Polly Steele. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

My first ever review in Sight and Sound: Four Letters of Love, an adaptation of Niall William’s best selling novel, directed by Polly Steele. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Honestly, Andrew Castle does not know when to shut the fuck up. #Wimbledon

Sinner's forehand I just love. It's so viscious, I don't know how it stays in. It's like the tennis equivalent of Deontay Wilder's right hook.

Andrew Castle on the BBC or, Nick Kyrgios on TNT. FFS #Wimbledon

One for regular cinema-goers: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

One for regular cinema-goers: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

It was fantastic to go on a journey of memories, ideas and cinematic discoveries with Mark Jenkin in this podcast conversation. One for true appreciators of cinema as a unique experience and not mere content in a wasteland of visual noise. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

That was the most depressing sports final I think I've ever watched. #Wimbledon

And/or you want to up your game in terms of the seminal masterpieces of cinema history...

Worth a read! @darioll.bsky.social “ Should Cinemas Embrace the Responsibility of Film Education?” My 2 cents: I’m in w/ caveats - making sure we view “film as empathy machine” discourse wi/ critical distance and caution ad nauseam that bio pics, docs, et al are constructs+also aren’t accurate

In my latest Substack, I write about films that offer compelling sound design, not simply functional but constitutive: woven into the narrative architecture, intimately bound to character psychology, and fundamental to the sensory-cognitive experience of the viewer. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Any tennis players in the North London area need a racket restring. Get in touch: www.sweetspotstringer.co.uk

Time for my annual vitriol about how terrible a commentator Andrew Castle is. It's not just the air of soft-conservative smugness that drip from every phrase, it's that his platitudinous inanities have been the soundtrack to the greatest era in mens tennis. Thankfully its only Wimbledon and the BBC.

In my latest Substack, I write about films that offer compelling sound design, not simply functional but constitutive: woven into the narrative architecture, intimately bound to character psychology, and fundamental to the sensory-cognitive experience of the viewer. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...