A Rabbit’s Foot #15
180 x 255 mm, 224 pages
London, UK
Published since 2022
Editor: Charles Finch
Creative director: Fatima Khan
Design: Broad Peak Studio
‘Film, Art, Culture and Confessions’
Promising a more cerebral (and arguably very particular) approach to the world of cinema, A Rabbit’s Foot is led by producer, writer, and filmmaker Charles Finch.
Coinciding with the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, this fifteenth issue explores the genre of ‘Sci-Fi’ through a refreshingly hopeful lens, preferring to focus on ‘the great stories of interplanetary travel and the plots that transport us in their optimism’ than our tendency towards ‘self-destruction’. The issue opens with a spotlight on Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’, a satirical commentary on the absurdity of the Cold War that feels particularly prescient in today’s climate of politainment. Elsewhere, the team present their personal highlights from Cannes 2026; Chris Cotonou sits down with Chilean-French master of avant-garde cinema Alejandro Jodorowsky in his Parisian studio, ahead of the release of a momentous new career retrospective by Taschen; George Lucas introduces a decade-long venture—and ‘what could prove to be his most personal and grandest legacy of all’—The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open in Los Angeles this autumn; and, Maxime Toscan du Plantier unpacks Ursula K. Le Guin’s radical and lasting subversion of the genre, plus much more.
And the name? Glad you asked. It comes from an Ernest Hemingway book, ‘For luck you carried… a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket… the claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.’