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Wang Bing on Dead Souls: “You have to show some truth”
The director’s latest work is a typically gruelling eight-hour documentary about the brutal regime in Chairman Mao’s re-education camps. He talks to Arjun Sajip about tracking down survivors, gaining their trust and fighting for the freedom to tell their story.
Thursday 13 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review: a wider webbed world
The original Peter Parker is joined by five new iterations of the arachnoid superhero in this mercurial and visually dazzling caper. Review by Henry K. Miller.
Wednesday 12 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
Our movie of the year is in black and white and went (almost) straight to a certain global web-streaming service.
Tuesday 11 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
The Image Book review: Jean-Luc Godard’s ruminative and radical montage
Godard’s multifaceted essay film revels in the mobility and mutability of imagery in the 21st century, uncovering the violence of representation but always searching for hope in a cacophonous world, writes Erika Balsom.
Thursday 6 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Sorry to Bother You is an unruly, outrageous corporate satire
The grasping racial politics of late-stage capitalism come under fire in Boots Riley’s wildly inventive comedy, starring Lakeith Stanfield as an office worker who gets too close to the truth, writes Adam Nayman.
Thursday 6 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
The Rider review: a visceral, organic western
Director Chloé Zhao walks a fine line between fact and fiction in this nuanced study of a young rodeo star recovering from a brain injury, writes Nikki Baughan.
Thursday 6 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Roma reframes Alfonso Cuáron’s boyhood through the eyes of his family’s maid
Cuáron’s magnificently crafted memoir casts us back to a 1970s childhood in the throes of family break-up, ruptures on the streets of Mexico City – and a Mixtec housekeeper given the weight of the drama, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Saturday 1 December 2018 -
James Baldwin and beyond: radical nights at the inaugural Smithsonian African American Film Festival
The opportunities for dialogue created by showing films from the African disapora in a grand Washington DC museum were very exciting, although there was little time to visit the exhibits between screenings, reports Matthew Barrington.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018: convening the vanguard of British cinema
At the eighth edition of this dynamic event in York, creatives at the forefront of film technology, from VFX to animation to VR, inspired audiences with their work and their stories, reports Alex Dudok de Wit.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
Auteurists under cover: when acclaimed filmmakers take on TV assignments
Long before Twin Peaks, signature directors from John Ford to David Cronenberg, Samuel Fuller to Jerry Lewis, have dabbled with small-screen jobs for hire. The results can be fascinating, writes Brad Stevens.
Friday 30 November 2018
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