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Expiry and its discontents: Let the Fire Burn and How to Survive a Plague
Two new ‘archival verité’ movies find creative ways to offset documentary cinema’s reality problem. By Robert Greene.
Robert Greene Thursday 24 October 2013
Unfiction
London 2013: ‘Cult’ round-up
Anton Bitel recounts his peculiar pleasures at the 57th London Film Festival.
Thursday 24 October 2013
Festivals
Sky-diving for filmmakers: Romania’s Aristoteles Workshop
Nick Roddick discovers a safe haven for documentaries without prejudice in the Eastern Carpathians.
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Willing spirits: Ben Rivers versus Albert Serra
Two of Britain and Spain’s most distinctive go-it-alone filmmakers compare notes on the magical power of narrative, the variable spirituality of non-professional actors and the elusive subtleties of their art.
Monday 21 October 2013
From the Magazine
Film of the week: The Broken Circle Breakdown
Gilda Williams loses herself in an impossibly beautiful and unbearably painful love story.
Gilda Williams Friday 18 October 2013
London 2013: Spanish cinema – beyond crisis?
Three new movies by London Film Festival debutantes exemplify the new DIY ethos of Spain’s embattled film sector, reports Mar Diestro-Dópido.
Thursday 17 October 2013
Storming the stage: Benjamin Britten’s cinematic mind
Paul Kildea relates how the movies inspired Benjamin Britten to revitalise British opera.
Paul Kildea Wednesday 16 October 2013
Film of the week: Le Week-end
Age and its discontents take the Parisian air in Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi’s deft romcom, finds Lisa Mullen.
Friday 11 October 2013
Goodbye Mr French: Fleet Street cuts back its film critics
This summer has seen a sudden round of layoffs from another of the old-film-world trades. Is this cyclical, or terminal, asks Nick James?
Reopening the Third Eye
Virginie Sélavy remembers Jacques Katmor, Israel’s counter-cultural voice in the wilderness.
Virginie Sélavy, Tai Shani Friday 11 October 2013
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