Festivals
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Colonial visions: Concerning Violence and N – The Madness of Reason
Africa’s subjugated pasts are far from past in two new films in this year’s festival, reports Ashley Clark.
Wednesday 12 February 2014 -
Reach for the heavens: Vertical Cinema at Rotterdam 2014
The city’s Arminius church was the perfect launchpad for a vertiginous showcase of shorts that stood tall, reports Michael Pattison.
Wednesday 12 February 2014 -
Soldiers and saints: Berlinale 2014 midway roundup
At midway, the Berlinale’s hits worth writing home about include the Northern Ireland Troubles thriller ’71 and note-perfect German teen martyr melodrama The Stations of the Cross. Nick James rounds them up.
Tuesday 11 February 2014 -
Zen time: Tsai Ming-liang’s Journey to the West
The Taiwanese master’s latest / last film offers a refined limit-case of slow cinema – and a meditation on the uses of slowness itself, says Jonathan Romney.
Tuesday 11 February 2014 -
Soft landing: suicide comedy A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby adaptations have fallen, reports Demetrios Matheou.
Monday 10 February 2014 -
Sticks to beat them with: She’s Lost Control and Nymph()maniac first look
Women’s sexual autonomy is still up for judgement in these two new movies from Anja Marquardt and Lars von Trier, finds Carmen Gray.
Monday 10 February 2014 -
Berlinale 2014 preview: Buzzing unknowns
Day one, and “arresting indeterminacy” defines the prospects in the festival programme as much as it does Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch, reports Nick James.
Thursday 6 February 2014 -
Best of British at the London International Animation Festival 2013
The rich visions at this domestic showcase tantalise with what might be possible with healthier funding for our animators, says Jez Stewart.
Tuesday 14 January 2014 -
Gateway from the east: Dubai 2013
Exiled Iranians and Singaporeans, determined Chinese villagers and nuclear-evacuee Japanese horses made for four admirable documentaries at the Middle Eastern festival’s tenth edition, reports Tony Rayns.
Tuesday 14 January 2014 -
Stormy waves: the London Korean Film Festival 2013
Some high-profile absences and attendant censorship worries were but the foam on a weltering sea of investigations of Korea. Anton Bitel reports on angry socio-political allegories, sex-assault dramas and more.
Friday 13 December 2013
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