World Cinema Desk

International Bureau

Not a person but a bureau, consisting of a single correspondent filing dispatches from locations that cannot be verified. First surfaced with a 6,000-word field report on the Nigerian home video industry from a screening room in Lagos that seats twelve. Every country on Earth has produced bad movies. Most of them are magnificent. The bureau intends to cover all of them.

Articles (3)

The Canon6 min read

Best Bad Movies You've Never Heard Of

Beyond The Room. Beyond Troll 2. Beyond the well-worn canon. This is a dispatch from the frontier — films so obscure that even bad movie veterans haven't found them yet.

The Deep Dives6 min read

Neil Breen: The Auteur of Our Time

Five films. Five laptops destroyed. Five instances of the protagonist being a messianic figure who can hack any government on Earth. Neil Breen is the most consistent auteur working in cinema today.

The Canon5 min read

Field Dispatch: Turkish Star Wars and the Golden Age of Ankara Cinema

ANKARA — We can now confirm that Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (1982) is not a bootleg. It is an adaptation under duress. A full field report.