The Lead · Film
The Long Take
How a single unbroken shot became cinema’s most seductive magic trick — and why directors keep chasing the impossible.
This Week
After dark, in three acts
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Basement Frequencies
Read →: Basement FrequenciesThe midnight set is back. Inside the after-hours rooms where DJs play to the few who stay until the lights come up.
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Last Call at the Blue Room
Read →: Last Call at the Blue RoomOne night in the city’s oldest jazz bar, where the music starts when everywhere else closes.
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Neon as Memory
Read →: Neon as MemoryA new generation of painters works only after dark, chasing the colour of a city that no longer sleeps.
Sections
What we cover
I
Film
The directors, the long takes, the scores written for the sleepless.
II
Music
Midnight sets and basement frequencies, reported from the floor.
III
Nightlife
The rooms that open when the rest of the city closes.
IV
Culture
Art, words and ideas made after dark.
V
Interviews
Long, honest conversations with the people of the night.
Editor’s Picks
From the small hours
No picks yet.
Our Beat
We cover the hours after midnight — the films, the records, the rooms and the people the daylight press forgets.
After Hours, est. MMXXVI
The Dispatch
Dispatches from after dark
A short letter every Friday at midnight: what we’re watching, hearing and staying up too late for. No noise, no daylight.