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Wasp Network review: a Cuban confusion
Olivier Assayas’s oblique expat Miama spy drama takes Édgar Ramírez, Penélope Cruz and Gael García Bernal down a dark tunnel of double agency and lost identities, says Brad Stevens.
Friday 7 August 2020 -
The tragic mountain: the making of The Epic of Everest
Filmed on the 1924 climbing expedition that cost George Mallory and Sandy Irvine their lives, The Epic of Everest was more than a record of a heroic failure: it set new standards for documentary making – and had political effects that are still being felt, writes Wade Davis.
Friday 29 May 2020 -
Cagney and the Mob: Kenneth Tynan on Hollywood’s original gangster
In this profile from our May 1951 issue, the legendary critic Kenneth Tynan reflects on the extraordinary career and influence of James Cagney, Hollywood’s original gangster, who blurred the line between hero and villain.
Tuesday 5 May 2020 -
A tribute to the late Sue Bruce-Smith
A legend in the British independent film world, film seller and distributor turned Film4 deputy director Sue Bruce-Smith sadly died of cancer last Saturday, 2 May 2020. Our former editor Nick James wrote this tribute to her in our March 2020 issue after a Bafta dinner; we publish them here in her memory.
Monday 4 May 2020 -
Scissors make films: Lotte Reiniger on creating her magical animations
In this piece from our Spring 1936 issue, Lotte Reiniger, the great German pioneer of silhouette animation, explains how she makes her magical films from paper and card.
Friday 1 May 2020 -
Oliver Hermanus on Moffie: “Apartheid created a very binary code”
Skin colour wasn’t the only marker of difference weaponised for repression under South African Apartheid. Oliver Hermanus tells Ben Walters about the male sexual stigma and fear imposed under military service that he has dramatised in his new film Moffie.
Sunday 26 April 2020 -
Turkish cinephilia in the time of Covid-19: quarantined but not forgotten
The coronavirus has privatised even the hardiest of Istanbul’s film-going community, and shuttered the two cinemas that served the city’s film festival. But analogue life will return, says Kaya Genç.
Friday 24 April 2020 -
From the Magazine
Humphrey and Bogey: Bogart by Louise Brooks
In this piece from our Winter 1966 issue, Lulu herself, Louise Brooks, one of the great stars of silent cinema, writes about the Humphrey Bogart she knew from her years in Hollywood – the man before the myth.
Wednesday 22 April 2020 -
Honor Blackman obituary: a new-model leading lady
From the leather-clad crusader of The Avengers to James Bond’s feistiest female foil, Honor Blackman kicked away the cobwebs of British screen femininity in the 1960s, writes Josephine Botting.
Tuesday 21 April 2020 -
Selah and the Spades review: no sex please, we’re boarding-school gangsters
Tayarisha Poe’s budding debut follows a new initiate under the wing of Lovie Simone’s commanding 17-year-old drug kingpin, writes Anna Smith.
Friday 17 April 2020
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