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Immersive Encounters 2017: virtual reality, real bodies
VR ‘screenings’ at the Encounters Short Film Festival highlighted the ambitions of the new form, but also its limitations for the disembodied viewers swivelling through new sensory worlds, writes Tara Judah.
Thursday 2 November 2017 -
Walter Lassally obituary: from British Free Cinema to ‘Walter the Greek’
Philip Kemp on the key cameraman for everyone from 1960s British realists Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson to James Ivory and Mikhail Cacoyannis, for whose Zorba the Greek he won an Oscar. Plus a reminiscence from David Robinson.
Wednesday 1 November 2017 -
Walter Lassally, cameraman: a tribute in pictures
Images from the great director of photography’s life behind the camera, from London to Crete.
Wednesday 1 November 2017 -
From the Magazine
“Like a bakery that forswears dough”: Walter Lassally on the fetters of British filmmaking
What were the odds against a British new wave breaking in the early 1960s? The late, great cameraman Walter Lassally wrote this trenchant opinion piece for our Summer 1960 issue, railing against “the Dead Hand of apathy, of complacency and convention, whose grip is felt on all sides of the industry.”
Wednesday 1 November 2017 -
From the Magazine
Perfect Blue archive review: Kon Satoshi’s twisted pop dream
A celebrity is terrorised by her doppelgänger in Kon Satoshi’s delirious anime, back in cinemas now. On its original release, Jonathan Romney praised its early critique of online fame.
Tuesday 31 October 2017 -
From the Magazine
The Shining archive review: a whole new Kubrick?
As classic horror The Shining returns to the cinema, we reprint our original, in-depth review by Richard Combs, which wrestled with an apparent change of approach from director Stanley Kubrick.
Tuesday 31 October 2017 -
Can the crime film change its ways? The sway of the 1970s at the 2017 LFF
As the BFI begins a major season of thrillers, Christina Newland looks at the crime titles unveiled in the 2017 London Film Festival and wonders, given how many harked back to the 70s, how the genre can still ring the changes?
Friday 27 October 2017 -
The serial killer variations: David Fincher on Mindhunter at the 2017 LFF
The Seven and Zodiac director took to the stage at the BFI London Film Festival to discuss his latest riff on the serial-killer genre, working with actors and his changing attitude to the thematics of his films. By Kelli Weston.
Friday 27 October 2017 -
From the Magazine
Thor: Ragnarok review: Marvel’s skies brighten
Chris Hemsworth’s thunder god takes a cosmic hike in a properly weird, poppy and knowing rescue sequel that riffs on Thor’s 1980s comic outings, Planet Hulk and Edgar Rice Burroughs, writes Kim Newman.
Friday 27 October 2017 -
From the Magazine
The Snowman review: a thriller that fails to thrill
Michael Fassbender keeps his cool as Jo Nesbø’s charmed alcoholic hunting a misogynistic killer, but otherwise Tomas Alfredson’s Nordic noir is misbegotten, writes Tim Hayes
Thursday 26 October 2017
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