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The self-styled ‘New Queer Cinema’ of the 1990s has arisen out of a long and important tradition of gay and lesbian filmmaking. But are the aesthetics, the politics and the assertions really marking new voices and new directions? B. Ruby Rich introduces the arguments, the directors and films.
Saturday 24 June 2017 -
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Bomb culture: Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now
Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Paradise Now is the subject of protests in the US because it explores the limited options for young Palestinians from a suicide bomber’s point of view. Yet Hany Abu-Assad’s film helps us to understand without condoning, argues B. Ruby Rich.
Saturday 24 June 2017 -
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New times: rethinking the story of US indie cinema
B. Ruby Rich reflects on developments in US underground, alternative and counterculture film and video making from the 1960s to the 90s.
Saturday 24 June 2017 -
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Film of the week: Edith Walks makes England loopy again
Andrew Kötting’s latest “brief and incorrect” country lark lights out with the apparition of King Harold’s widow, and kindred history-diviners, in commemoration of the dismemberment of Anglo-Saxon England, writes Hannah McGill.
Friday 23 June 2017 -
Tehran noir: Samuel Khachikian and the rise and fall of Iranian genre films
For four decades, this innovative director made Hollywood-style movies that played to sellout crowds in Iran. After the revolution, his western inspirations fell out of favour, but a new retrospective of his little-seen work should reinvigorate his reputation, writes Ehsan Khoshbakht.
Thursday 22 June 2017 -
Screening it for themselves: young DIY British film programmers
Does the cinema space matter to millennials? Yes, and even more so when the films have been selected by their peers. Simran Hans meets the young people creating their own cinema experiences.
Thursday 22 June 2017 -
Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 5 & 6 recap – the good, the bad and the Dougie
Agent Cooper returns… as Señor Droolcup? With the testing fifth and sixth episodes of the new Twin Peaks running high on bloody violence, operatic tragedy and a preponderance of oddball slapstick, Tom Huddleston wonders if David Lynch is messing with us.
Thursday 22 June 2017 -
From the Magazine
The black feminine on screen: 11 key auteurs
From Daughters of the Dust to Lemonade, a distinctly interior, subjective aesthetic binds a number of films made by and about black women. Tega Okiti spotlights 11 of the varied individuals and collectives at the heart of this often marginalised cinematic tradition.
Saturday 17 June 2017 -
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Film of the week: By the Time It Gets Dark refracts memories of a massacre
Anocha Suwichakornpong’s formally experimental, provocative film frames and re-frames stories related to an infamous Thai student massacre in 1976, with each of its narrative threads occupying its own questionable reality, writes Ben Nicholson.
Friday 16 June 2017 -
Generation gap: Cannes 2017’s prize-winning short films
The three award-winning shorts at Cannes all told stories about the distance between parents and children, and revealed some exciting directorial talent to watch, writes Laurence Boyce.
Sunday 11 June 2017
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