Philip Kemp is a freelance reviewer and film historian, a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and Total Film, and teaches Film Journalism at the University of Leicester. He recently edited Cinema: The Whole Story (Thames & Hudson, 2011).
Articles by Philip Kemp
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The many faces of Federico Fellini – part four: la famiglia Fellini
As a major BFI retrospective celebrates the centenary of Fellini’s birth, we explore some of the themes that made his work such a dazzling highpoint in 20th-century art cinema, here with Philip Kemp on the director’s close family of collaborators.
Friday, February 7, 2020
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Mr. Jones review: the horrors of the Holodomor, witnessed by a Welsh reporter
A fearless journalist investigates the famine in Ukraine during WWII in this overstretched but nobly intentioned drama directed by Agnieszka Holland, writes Philip Kemp.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
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No Fathers in Kashmir review: a deeply felt film about a region blighted by violence
Ashvin Kumar directs, stars and more in this urgent and beautiful story, in which two youngsters uncover the true horror of their country’s recent past, writes Philip Kemp.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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The many faces of Federico Fellini – part one: the neorealist
As the BFI launches a major retrospective to celebrate the centenary of the gleefully idiosyncratic Italian director’s birth, we explore some of the themes that made Fellini’s work such a dazzling highpoint in 20th-century art cinema, starting with Philip Kemp on his emergence in the neorealist tradition.
Friday, January 17, 2020
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The Two Popes review: opposites attract in this brilliantly acted tale of papal succession
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce are both at the peak of their powers as a conservative Pope and his more liberal successor debating the best way forward for the Vatican in the modern era, by Philip Kemp.
Friday, November 29, 2019
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Permission review: an Iranian woman fights for the right to footie
A talented footballer kicks back against her misogynist husband in order to progress her career in Soheil Beiraghi’s portrait of Iran’s rigged separation game, say Philip Kemp.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
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The Good Liar review: Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen play cat-and-mouse
Ian McKellen’s debonair conman may have met his match in Helen Mirren’s super-smart widow, but the convoluted script detracts from the pleasure of these two greats on screen together for the first time, writes Philip Kemp.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
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American Woman review: Sienna Miller breaks through as a bereaved rust-belt mother
Jake Scott’s patient portrait of a woman’s grief and struggle in a working-class Pennsylvania community gives Miller a leading role she seizes brilliantly, writes Philip Kemp.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
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The Favourite review: a rich and ribald royal farce
As a whimsical, infantile Queen Anne, Olivia Colman holds court to rivals Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’s invigoratingly offbeat costume comedy, writes Philip Kemp.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
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Film of the week: Redoubtable falls out of love with Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Hazanavicius recounts the breakup of the New Wave icon and his muse Anne Wiazemsky in this playful, irreverent and occasionally scathing movie, writes Philip Kemp.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
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