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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 -
Fresh frontiers: five of the best Scottish films at the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017
Scottish talent shone at Glasgow’s celebration of short film. While it’s little surprise that many of this year’s contenders were preoccupied with borders, identity and borders, the way those issues were approached was often very refreshing, writes Tara Judah.
Wednesday 22 March 2017 -
DeKalb Elementary and Green Screen Gringo: two of the best from Clermont-Ferrand 2017
Two of the major winners at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival showed that even the smallest films can engage with global concerns – from gun violence in schools to political unrest in Brazil, writes Laurence Boyce.
Saturday 25 February 2017 -
Virtual Reality installations at Sundance 2017
The USA’s biggest festival of independent cinema also explores the cutting edge of movie technologies in its New Frontier showcase. A sample half-dozen of this year’s wares offered the chance for enhanced pleasure (and anxiety), empathy and political engagement, reports Sophie Brown.
Monday 13 February 2017 -
From the Magazine
The filth and the fury: Taxi Driver, the Ramones and the spirit of 76
Lobbed from the gutters of 1976 New York, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver was a film wound tight for hard times. Jon Savage finds echoes of its nihilism and rage in the Ramones’ contemporaneous debut album.
Wednesday 8 February 2017 -
Toons in the air: highlights of 2016’s Manchester and London animation festivals
Masterclasses with veterans, fresh films by students, home-grown favourites and offbeat work from abroad were all on the slate at Manchester’s young and clubby new animation shindig, and London’s well-established and cosmopolitan affair, reports Alex Dudok de Wit.
Thursday 15 December 2016 -
Podcast: Certain Women, Elle, Moonlight and Nocturama – four 2016 highlights, debated
Kieron Corless hosts Erika Balsom, Henry K. Miller and Catherine Wheatley for a half-hour debate about four outstanding movies from this autumn’s London Film Festival.
Thursday 1 December 2016 -
FiSahara: the world’s only film festival in a refugee camp
At one of the world’s most remote film festivals, cinema is still a fledgling medium, but it is already being put into use as a weapon of resistance. Can film really save the Sahrawis, asks Alex Dudok de Wit?
Tuesday 22 November 2016 -
Fifty miles from Iraq’s battle line, a Kurdish film festival celebrating humanity
Kurdistan’s welcoming Duhok International Film Festival screened films that dealt directly, and for the most part fairly, with ongoing fights against Isis, oppression and xenophobia, reports Celluloid Liberation Front.
Sunday 20 November 2016 -
Cambridge Film Festival 2016: Where artists and archives meet
Artist-filmmakers and archivists waltzed together as new films delved into local rituals and compelling found footage, while programmers unturned gems from cheery 3D curios to 60s psychedelia, reports Henry K. Miller.
Tuesday 8 November 2016
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