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Max von Sydow obituary: Swedish star whose filmography sets him among the immortals
The actor who came to prominence dicing with Death himself in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal had a phenomenally prolific career both in his native Sweden and abroad, energising both arthouse and blockbuster cinema with his inimitable presence, writes Michael Brooke.
Tuesday 10 March 2020 -
Max von Sydow: Bergman and beyond
In tribute to the late great Swedish actor, who has died aged 90, we republish Geoffrey Macnab’s 2005 profile of this existential giant and his journey beyond being Bergman’s alter ego to international stardom.
Monday 9 March 2020 -
Brazilian films may have had a triumphant 2019, but the assault on filmmaking by right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is threatening the very fabric of the country’s cinema. By Jonathan Romney.
Monday 9 March 2020 -
From the Magazine
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am review: a neat portrait of a fearless writer
Rich in anecdote and in its subject’s own charisma, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s documentary keeps to its own comfort zone, says Hannah McGill.
Monday 9 March 2020 -
From the Magazine
Vitalina Varela review: Pedro Costa’s operatic poem of a widow in memory’s underworld
The Portuguese master continues his serenely singular filmmaking project, turning his mytho-poetic powers to reincarnate the experiences of the Cape Verdean widow first encountered in his previous film Horse Money, writes Jonathan Romney.
Friday 6 March 2020 -
From the Magazine
Military Wives review: the song remains the same
Kristen Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan lead a familiarly shaped fictionalisation of the hit BBC garrision-wives choir show, but the testimonies they sing still hit home, says Kate Stables.
Friday 6 March 2020 -
Finally rediscovered and reconstructed by his widow and now co-author Valeria Sarmiento, what would have been the unstoppable Chilean master’s first feature instead becomes his second posthumous work: a headlong Dadaist puzzle film about the haunting of a guilty widower, writes Ela Bittencourt.
Thursday 5 March 2020 -
From the Magazine
Living memory: Pedro Costa on Vitalina Varela
Drawing from the real-life experiences of its lead protagonist, Pedro Costa’s luminous portrait of grief Vitalina Varela follows a woman from Cape Verde who arrives in Lisbon to search for her absent husband only to find he has just died. Christopher Small talks to the director.
Thursday 5 March 2020 -
From the Magazine
Berlinale 2020 report: a slow turn, with bumps
The winner dialled in from house arrest and some of the bigger names were missing in action, but the 70th Berlinale pulled together enough finds and fresh ideas to seem open to the future, found Jessica Kiang.
Wednesday 4 March 2020 -
Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale
First word on some of the striking debuts and other strong finds in the notoriously wide-ranging Berlin Film Festival.
Wednesday 4 March 2020
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