Festivals
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Ruben Östlund’s The Square wins the Palme d’Or: complete Cannes 2017 awards and comment
Pedro Almodóvar’s jury divided its prizes across a generally deserving spread of films from the likes of Lynne Ramsay, Sofia Coppola and Robin Campillo – as well as giving top honours to Sweden’s rising talent Östlund. It would be churlish to carp, says Nick James.
Sunday 28 May 2017 -
Cannes 2017 midway round-up: the best and worst of the first week
Nick James on the hits and misses of the Competition so far, including Michael Haneke’s Happy End, Valeska Grisebach’s Western and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless.
Tuesday 23 May 2017 -
From the Magazine
Cannes 2017 preview: Pleasures of the fresh
Some new names alongside the regulars, a renewed interest in politics, and a bunch of thrillers: Cannes 2017 looks like a cracker, says Nick James.
Tuesday 16 May 2017 -
Factory records: workers of the world, across 11 new documentaries
The latest nonfiction movie forays showcased in the ICA’s second Frames of Representation festival explore modern regimes of labour, physical discipline and social control, says Ben Nicholson.
Thursday 27 April 2017 -
Feet in the water: Flatpack 2017 goes back to nature
From a canal-focused Gongoozling Day to celebrations of film naturalists Jean Painlevé and F. Percy Smith, the 11th Flatpack Film Festival transported audiences on a series of hypnotic encounters with nature and the aquatic, reports Thirza Wakefield.
Wednesday 26 April 2017 -
The great escape: ten of the best at Sci-Fi-London 2017
Whether flying to the stars or simply getting out of your skull, this year’s festival offers several opportunities for a virtual getaway, writes Anton Bitel.
Thursday 20 April 2017 -
Children of the coup: Chilean cinema after Pinochet
A retrospective of 21st-century Chilean film at the Seminci Film Festival in Spain revealed how the national cinema has flourished and diversified in the post-Pinochet era. If only these exciting films could be seen in the rest of the world, says Mar Diestro-Dópido.
Thursday 6 April 2017 -
Podcast: three critics discuss the best of BFI Flare 2017
Alex Davidson, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters discuss the best of the year’s London LGBT film fiesta – from the half-century commemoration of the Sexual Offences Act to The Untamed’s alien sex octopus.
Friday 31 March 2017 -
VOD rules? The pick of SXSW Film 2017
The dominance of view-on-demand services’ patronage seems to be a concern as much as an opportunity at Texas’s South by Southwest Film Festival, reports Nick Roddick. Still, two standout first features – Tragedy Girls and Hot Summer Nights – excellently break the mould.
Thursday 30 March 2017 -
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? and four more True/False 2017 highlights
Jordan Cronk highlights five of the best from the 14th True/False Film Festival – not least Travis Wilkerson’s ‘white nightmare story’, “one of the most powerful reckonings in recent American cinema”.
Thursday 23 March 2017
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