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FiSahara: the world’s only film festival in a refugee camp
At one of the world’s most remote film festivals, cinema is still a fledgling medium, but it is already being put into use as a weapon of resistance. Can film really save the Sahrawis, asks Alex Dudok de Wit?
Tuesday 22 November 2016 -
I abject: the not-so-simple propaganda of Veit Harlan’s Jew Suss
In the first of two posts reassessing the Nazi collaborations of German director Veit Harlan, Brad Stevens scratches at the antisemitic surface of his notorious 1940 drama Jew Suss.
Monday 21 November 2016 -
Fifty miles from Iraq’s battle line, a Kurdish film festival celebrating humanity
Kurdistan’s welcoming Duhok International Film Festival screened films that dealt directly, and for the most part fairly, with ongoing fights against Isis, oppression and xenophobia, reports Celluloid Liberation Front.
Sunday 20 November 2016 -
Your Name review: emo anime magic
Young Japanese anime talent Shinkai Makoto makes it big with a sparkling body-swap teen romance that mixes wit, heart and wondrous spectacle, says Kate Stables.
Friday 18 November 2016 -
From the Magazine
A monumental reckoning: how Abel Gance’s Napoleon was restored to full glory
The production history of the extraordinary 1927 film – and of the painstaking, decades-long efforts to reconstruct the film from surviving prints – displays some of the fearless single-mindedness and megalomaniac ambition of the emperor himself. By Paul Cuff.
Friday 18 November 2016 -
From the Magazine
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them review: a fiddly start for J.K. Rowling’s wizarding prequels
The Harry Potter author extends her Wizarding World to Prohibition-era New York with this ambitious if sometimes awkward offcut, the first of five planned movies based on her 2001 whimsical bestiary, writes Kim Newman.
Friday 18 November 2016 -
From the Magazine
Canadian super-stylist Denis Villeneuve aces the dry run for his upcoming Blade Runner sequel with this high-spec Amy Adams alien-invasioner, says Adam Nayman.
Friday 11 November 2016 -
The (few) women breaking through in Korean cinema
Women are unusually well-represented on screen in Korean cinema. Behind the camera is a different story – for reasons that say more about our own biases than we might care to recognise, reports Darcy Paquet.
Friday 11 November 2016 -
Chris Shepherd: “You give the audience a nostalgia massage… and then it turns”
The “bit warped” filmmaker talk to Jez Stewart about the changing state of animation, Scouse humour and why he has made a sequel to the unforgettable Dad’s Dead.
Friday 11 November 2016 -
Light of day: Raoul Coutard on shooting film for Jean-Luc Godard
In tribute to the great French New Wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who has died aged 92, we republish this 1965 reminiscence about how he learnt to ‘keep it simple’, Godard-style.
Wednesday 9 November 2016
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