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    Fantastic voyages: how VR became a reality

    A brave new world of virtual reality film is dawning, but will it prove as exhilarating and disorienting for modern viewers as the experience of early cinema was for the audiences who watched the Ciotat train arrive at the station in the Lumières’ short in 1896? By Marisol Grandon.

    Marisol Grandon
    Friday 8 July 2016

    Features

  • Deeper, longer, realer: VR at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016

    There was some serious second-wave virtual-reality ambition on show this year at Doc/Fest’s ever-burgeoning Alternate Realities showcase, reports Marisol Grandon – if you could get a headset to find out.

    Marisol Grandon
    Friday 8 July 2016

    Festivals

  • From the Magazine

    Film of the week: Weiner

    All on camera: Leigh Singer on Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s highly entertaining, stranger-than-satire portrait of the self-combusting NYC politician.


    Thursday 7 July 2016

    Reviews and recommendations

  • Abbas and me

    Geoff Andrew remembers the private side of the late Abbas Kiarostami.


    Wednesday 6 July 2016

    Obituaries

  • Michael Cimino, 1939-2016

    Tom Charity on the Oscar-winning writer-director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate: an artist whose extravagance served to shut the door on Hollywood’s 1970s golden age.


    Tuesday 5 July 2016

    Obituaries

  • Robin Hardy, 1929-2016

    Vic Pratt remembers the director of The Wicker Man, an indefatigable creative communicator and joker.

    Vic Pratt
    Tuesday 5 July 2016

    Obituaries

  • Abbas Kiarostami, 1940-2016

    The most celebrated of Iranian filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami expanded the frame of documentary and narrative fiction forms in human dramas that resonated with international audiences, writes Ehsan Koshbakht.


    Tuesday 5 July 2016

    Obituaries

  • From the Magazine

    Long arm of the lore: Robin Hardy on The Wicker Man

    Mauled by the studio, obsessed over by fans, deconstructed by academics, remade with Nicolas Cage – yet the pagan British weirdness of The Wicker Man remains fresh. Unveiling The Final Cut in 2013, its director recalls the making of a myth to Vic Pratt.

    Vic Pratt
    Monday 4 July 2016

    Features

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    Film of the week: From Afar

    Still lives: last year’s Venice Golden Lion winner is a tautly minimalist, darkly brave study of male intimacy across the tracks in Venezuela, says Demetrios Matheou.


    Friday 1 July 2016

    Reviews and recommendations

  • Home of the weak: Out of the Past and four ways of framing film noir

    How can we define films noir? Are they really all about fatalism, and gynophobia – or could the richest of them actually hint at what it means to lose the rat race, asks Brad Stevens?


    Thursday 30 June 2016

    Bradlands

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