Festivals
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The Homesman review: Tommy Lee Jones goes flat out west
Nine years after his directorial debut opened here, the veteran actor and man in black returns to the western – with diminishing results, says Geoff Andrew.
Sunday 18 May 2014 -
National Gallery review: Fred Wiseman behind the scenes at the museum
Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner is not the only art movie by a master of cinema at this year’s Cannes, says Isabel Stevens.
Saturday 17 May 2014 -
Girlhood and Captives: girls found and lost
Céline Sciamma hones her art with the “near-perfect” Girlhood – and Atom Egoyan returns to form with the grim fable Captives, finds Nick James.
Friday 16 May 2014 -
Timbuktu first-look review: an eloquent and complex Malian j’accuse
Mali’s brutal jihadists are depicted with oblique defiance and even compassion in this latest exemplary piece of cinema from Abderrahmane Sissako, says Geoff Andrew.
Thursday 15 May 2014 -
Grace of Monaco and the thorny art of the Cannes opening gala
Contra the Monaco royal family’s apprehensions, this year’s festival opener is less a farce, more a “stiff, moribund piece of soft-focus hagiography… for lovers of regal camp,” reports Jonathan Romney.
Wednesday 14 May 2014 -
Cannes 2014: ne plus ultra and no backing down
Can the festival change with the times, asks Nick James?
Wednesday 14 May 2014 -
From the Magazine
Cannes 2014 preview: stiff competition
Jonathan Romney on what to look out for in this year’s festival – from the usual auteur heavyweights to the roster of UK talent.
Tuesday 13 May 2014 -
Reality and the red carpet: Hot Docs 2014
At North America’s biggest documentary festival, nonfiction generously extends to more or less thorny matters of fame, media frenzies, pantomimes and hoopla, finds Adam Nayman.
Monday 12 May 2014 -
Bridges in time: Istanbul 2014
On the anniversary of the city’s Gezi Park protests, and the centenary of the first-ever Turkish film, old and new made strange bedfellows at this year’s Istanbul Film Festival, reports Kaya Genç.
Wednesday 30 April 2014 -
Shelter from the storm: the Orphan Film Symposium 2014
This year’s convention of ‘archivists, artists and scholars’ dusted off curios including a Polish typewriter camera, a bonfire of valve radios, Josephine Baker in clogs and the eye-popping Gasparcolor system. Ian Francis reports.
Saturday 26 April 2014
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