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Lois Weber: it’s time to celebrate this pioneering director
Once regarded as one of America’s finest directors, Lois Weber was all but written out of film history. Now – with two of her works on Blu-ray and upcoming screenings in Cambridge and Bath – we can see what the fuss was about, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 18 October 2018 -
Orphée archive review: Jean Cocteau extends the frontiers of cinema
On its original release, our critic Gavin Lambert compared the radicalism of this film to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Will it seem so revolutionary now it is back in cinemas again?
Thursday 18 October 2018 -
Immersive Encounters 2018: virtual reality in the round
At Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival, VR moved closer to the communal experience of cinema, but the technology can still keep users at a distance, reports Tara Judah.
Thursday 18 October 2018 -
Real news from the heartlands: Wiseman, Moore and Morris take on Trump
If documentaries can react to our times faster than fiction films, how do the latest from three American masters – Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, Errol Morris’s American Dharma and Fred Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana – probe the meaning of Trumpism, asks Tom Charity.
Wednesday 17 October 2018 -
Ray Galton obituary: a pen against the tide
With Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe & Son, the late screenwriting duo Galton & Simpson defined the post-war British TV sitcom as they lampooned the age that bore it, writes Andrew Roberts.
Wednesday 17 October 2018 -
Podcast: Widows, Ash Is Purest White and three more highlights of the 2018 London Film Festival
What does Steve McQueen’s new heist thriller Widows tell us about race and class in contemporary America? Plus Ash Is Purest White, Joy, Support the Girls and Long Day’s Journey into Night.
Wednesday 17 October 2018 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Mandy aims Nicolas Cage at a temple of doom
Nicolas Cage’s bereft lumberjack becomes a slash-metal Samson rampaging against Linus Roache’s false god and his addled idolaters in Panos Cosmatos’s transcendental pulp cult wig-out, says Anton Bitel.
Wednesday 17 October 2018 -
Make Me Up review: Rachel Maclean takes a cyber cleaver to art history
Multimedia artist Rachel Maclean offers a digital twist on the suffragette assault on art-historical misogyny – a sherbert-fountain-screened unmasking of cultural command and control, writes Tara Judah.
Monday 15 October 2018 -
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. first look: Ben Wheatley convenes that sinking family feeling
Wheatley’s mordant big-family-gathering tragicomedy sets the temperature to slow-burn, says Ella Kemp.
Monday 15 October 2018 -
A Faustian feast: 9 new Cult finds at the 2018 London Film Festival
This year’s LFF Cult strand ventures beyond the bounds of identity, adolescence and ethics in these incautious cautionary tales from France to Brazil, Norway to Indonesia, says Anton Bitel.
Sunday 14 October 2018
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