The Film Pupil #9 - December 2025

The Film Pupil #9 - December 2025

The magazine features five medium-length essays per issue. In issue 9 there is...

• A journey through the history and architecture of Vienna's cinemas.
• A cross analysis of how gothic novels have been adapted in Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein", Luc Besson's "Dracula", and Emerald Fennell's upcoming "Wuthering Heights".
• A look at Studio Ghibli's first feature "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind".
• An analysis of why the grief depicted in "Aftersun" is so accurate.
• A discussion of the best type of parodies and why most are Edgar Wright films.

Each essay is accompanied a mixture of custom graphics and licensed film stills.

Between the essays are four features:

• The Data Section: A look into if the running times of films have been getting longer over the decades.
• The History Section: Soviet Westerns - the motifs and reception when the USSR adapted the gunslinger genre.
• An exclusive Interview with filmmaker behind "The Golden Spurtle" - the acclaimed feature documentary about a porridge making competition in the highlands.
• Cartoons on film culture.