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Ocean’s Eight review: girls just wanna have bling
Sandra Bullock leads her crack burglar squad in a high-society, low-hurdle heist caper in which togetherness is a matter of sharing the spoils, says Violet Lucca.
Wednesday 20 June 2018 -
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The Piano archive review: Jane Campion’s realm of the senses
Jane Campion’s virtuoso film about a mute woman and her daughter in 19th-century New Zealand is back in cinemas for its 25th anniversary. On its first release, Lizzie Francke was overwhelmed by its emotional heft.
Wednesday 20 June 2018 -
Power tools for a revolution: the Woman with a Movie Camera Summit 2018
A day of activism and conversation at BFI Southbank went beyond the usual discourse about diversity in the film industry, calling for radical strategies to bring about structural change, writes Anna Coatman.
Wednesday 20 June 2018 -
Stanley Cavell obituary: the philosopher who met the world by movie light
A helpless film lover by nurture and nature, Cavell not only embraced his calling but persuaded the world of it, opening up academia to Hollywood and exploring what it means for us all to share the same pictures in our heads, writes Catherine Wheatley.
Wednesday 20 June 2018 -
Re-sculpting Godard: Soundwalk Collective at play in the JLG sound archive
Jean-Luc Godard has amassed an archive of hundreds of boxes of tapes and reels of live sound from his film shoots – through which the international art music group Soundwalk Collective got the chance to delve for their latest album What We Leave Behind. Albertine Fox takes a listen.
Monday 18 June 2018 -
Kira Muratova obituary: a great, fearless filmmaker who poked at open wounds
The work of Ukraine’s singular and prolific Kira Muratova – best known for 1989’s Asthenic Syndrome, but spanning the Soviet Thaw and two decades post-perestroika – remains critically neglected. Is it just too unflinching, asks Birgit Beumers.
Friday 15 June 2018 -
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Film of the week: Hereditary paints a diabolical family portrait
Ari Aster’s unnerving and artful debut stars Toni Collette as a woman tormented by her own mother’s terrifying legacy, and uses a palette of haunted-house tropes to keep the audience guessing until the end, writes Anton Bitel.
Friday 15 June 2018 -
Blake Williams on PROTOTYPE: “Artists are only beginning to discover the full capacity of 3D”
Stereoscopy has fascinated filmmakers since the 1800s, but one artist is trying to take the third dimension in new directions. He tells Ben Nicholson why he is inspired by Michael Snow and virtual rollercoasters, and why he really wants to see a 3D Transformers movie.
Wednesday 13 June 2018 -
What do you do with your revolution? Rocky Road to Dublin versus 1968 Ireland
A scathing portrait of independent Ireland’s squandered liberty, Peter Lennon’s state-of-the-nation documentary was launched into the fervour of 1968 Cannes, then suppressed at home. Fifty years later, Erica X Eisen asks if the Ireland it wanted is finally emerging.
Wednesday 13 June 2018 -
The haunted house of patriarchy: how The Entity subverts mainstream horror films
The nightmare to E.T.’s dream of a home-invading paranormal father figure, Sidney J. Furie’s radical 1982 horror film The Entity connects contemporary articulations of abusive, gaslighting patriarchy with the Gothic tradition’s ambiguous explorations of Evil, says Brad Stevens.
Monday 11 June 2018
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