Author Archives: Eunice Seng

Cuts through Hong Kong: the spatial collage of In the Mood for Love

By Eunice Seng 4 August 2021 Essays

A woman can be seen through the window of her apartment, drinking from a glass

As a collage of time and place, Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love captures a city in a state of transition

Umbrella urbanism: Hong Kong protests

28 October 2014 By John Lin

Weeks of unrest by Hong Kong’s democracy campaigners has met with intransigent…

Typology: Cinemas

12 January 2016 By Tom Wilkinson

Gloriously kitsch picture palaces engulfed the masses in darkness, while opening virtual space through the…

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Reel life: Brazilian realities reflected in cinema

31 October 2019 By Mariana Cunha and Antonio Márcio da Silva

From the home to the favela to the city at large, Brazilian…

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Corridors of uncertainty: Modernist utopia and cinematic menace

11 June 2020 By Catherine Slessor

Whether an oppressive tool of state power or unsettling locus of supernatural…

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Film studies: when cinema acts as an encyclopaedia of architectural spaces

13 August 2020 By François Penz

Uniting space and time in the documentation of the urban fabric, cinema…

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed. In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit.

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