A Rabbit's Foot is a film (mainly) and arts quarterly published in a pleasingly chunky and shelf-friendly volume that offers 'an insider’s look at the industry, from a current, historical and international perspective'.
Published by film producer and businessman Charles Finch, A Rabbit’s Foot aims to be a cerebral companion for people with a wider curiousity about film and its wider cultural contexts. Each quarterly edition is themed around a specific subject (such as French cinema or Politics and Film) with relevant interviews, essays and biographical writing alongside photography, behind the scene-images and film stills.
A Rabbit’s Foot takes its curious name from Ernest Hemingway’s memoir ‘A Movable Feast' ('For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the ones and the sinews were polished by wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.')
About Issue 12 from the publisher:
The 12th issue of A Rabbit’s Foot is about the crossover between the arts and SANCTUARY—a home known or found, a place of escape, or contentment and inspiration.
Our cover star Isabelle Huppert meets us in her own sanctuary: the cinema, for an exclusive interview that follows her career and passion for film, and mystifying original photography in Paris.
We also spend time with John Malkovich, discussing wine-making in Provence and filmmaker Celine Song in New York ahead of Materialists. Our writer joins artist Emily Young at her Tuscan retreat and hitches a car with author Rachel Kushner through France. Brazilian veteran Fernando Meirelles talks sustainability and City of God, while Harris Dickinson ruminates on London and directing his first feature.
Among these deeply informative, human interviews are essays on VS Naipaul by Aatish Taseer and a look at Graham Greene’s sanctuary: Capri.
All of this and much more compose Issue 12 of A Rabbit’s Foot—a 200-plus page compendium of meaningful stories that bring readers across the cultural spectrum in a single beautifully-designed volume.
