Sabina Stent

A look back at ‘Detroit Rock City'.

W. Eugene Smith's photographs capture the icon of early cinema as a reflective, older man, at times struggling with difficulties both personal and professional

I wrote about the intersection of art, fashion, and comics for the Birds of Prey movie posters.

"There was also a sense of movement and flow in his work, just like a dance in motion"
SabinaStent looks at Henri Cartier-Bresson's images capturing the art of dancing

An essay about Mae West’s Shoes, sexuality, and footwear wrapped up in Hollywood lore.

Dennis Stock’s photographs of one of America’s first horror heroines – Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira.

For Polygon I wrote about the influence of Powell and Pressburger’s gorgeous A Matter of Life and Death on both Captain America: The First Avenger and Agent Carter.

Sophia Loren: La Bella Figura
At 85 today, we explore the Magnum archive on the Italian actress - on set and off

It may sound bizarre to some of you, but whenever I visit an exhibition celebrating movie costumes, I always expect to see something by Edna Mode. Yes, I understand that she is a figment of Brad Bird’s imagination, I know she has been rendered on a computer, and I realize that we have only seen a very tiny portion of her work, but to me, she is so real. Indulge me for a moment, but I think her services to superheroes and couture need to be celebrated and respected—just IMAGINE wandering into ...

Wonder Woman has burst back onto the silver screen in the last few years, but it’s crucial to rediscover how she first came to be. Chronicling a loving relationship between three brilliant open minds, Professor Marston and The Wonder Women honours William, Elizabeth, and Olive. Sabina Stent looks back on the mutual desire that birthed an icon.
In 1943, the psychologist and inventor William Moulton Marston, creator of an early prototype of the lie detector test, wrote in The American Scholar: ...

Natalie Shirinian’s new documentary Interior Motives explores the increasingly intimate relationship between fashion and interior design
“I wanted to offer a portal view into this otherwise very exclusive world through my point of view,” says Natalie Shirinian, director of Interior Motives, a new documentary exploring how fashion and interior design intersect. “Almost like the viewer is Alice falling into Wonderland.”
Interior Motives is the first film to explore the relationship between betw...

The connections between Peter and Tony run deeper than posters on every wall...

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck tells AnOther about his new film, a fictional tale loosely based on Gerhard Richter’s life in Nazi Germany
“I believe in fiction. I believe that a fictionalisation that is rooted in truth can bring something closer to truthfulness than a mere listing of facts.”
As a child, German film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck accompanied his mother to the Zeitgeist exhibition at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau museum, which housed work by an array of artists inclu...

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MAI: The first time I saw your work it brought to mind both Dora Maar’s 29 Rue Astorg and Francesca Woodman’s Rhode Island series. How do these comparisons make you feel?
Ellen Rogers: I remembered you saying this! I was touched by that thought as we strolled down the straight towards Euston station–somehow the thought of that is infused with that road now–imagining them sitting in the Welcome Collection as a result.
I think there is a chance some people are born ...

How Captain America: The Winter Soldier predicated Avengers: Endgame.