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All killer, almost no filler: Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween All-Dayer 2018
This year’s day-long horror marathon offered several self-reflexive pleasures and very few tired tropes. Nothing scary about that, reports Anton Bitel.
Friday 9 November 2018 -
The idea and the image: Cambridge Film Festival 2018
This year’s festival drew large crowds to see a diverse range of international films, many of which wrestled with the ethical questions haunting revered works of art – while others, perhaps wisely, chose not to, reports Henry K. Miller.
Friday 9 November 2018 -
Men in focus: five British documentaries at LFF 2018
Many of the new documentaries at this year’s London Film Festival showed us men under pressure: from boyband stars reconciling themselves to their past in the spotlight to a group of factory workers fighting for their jobs, writes Caitlin Quinlan.
Thursday 1 November 2018 -
Immersive Encounters 2018: virtual reality in the round
At Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival, VR moved closer to the communal experience of cinema, but the technology can still keep users at a distance, reports Tara Judah.
Thursday 18 October 2018 -
Podcast: Widows, Ash Is Purest White and three more highlights of the 2018 London Film Festival
What does Steve McQueen’s new heist thriller Widows tell us about race and class in contemporary America? Plus Ash Is Purest White, Joy, Support the Girls and Long Day’s Journey into Night.
Wednesday 17 October 2018 -
A Faustian feast: 9 new Cult finds at the 2018 London Film Festival
This year’s LFF Cult strand ventures beyond the bounds of identity, adolescence and ethics in these incautious cautionary tales from France to Brazil, Norway to Indonesia, says Anton Bitel.
Sunday 14 October 2018 -
Cosmic curiosities: umpteen highlights of Toronto’s 2018 Wavelengths showcase
TIFF’s experimental film and video programme was back on song this year with myriad experimental wonders from both masters and rising stars, writes Jordan Cronk.
Monday 1 October 2018 -
The fast and the curious: 10 short films to watch at Encounters 2018
From a day in the life of a factory worker in Spain to a crime observed on a bus in Iran via fisticuffs in Bristol and the Brexit debate, Laurence Boyce selects some titles to check out at this year’s festival.
Monday 24 September 2018 -
Choose your poison: the FrightFest 2018 critics’ roundtable post-mortem podcast
Gaspar Noé’s closing-night Climax set the tone for a horror bonanza that went big on spiked drinks, ghosts, nuns and dollhouses. We locked Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy in a room to chew it over.
Friday 21 September 2018 -
Peace, love… and Estonian madness at the Hiroshima Animation Festival 2018
Asia’s premier animation showcase flies the flag for pacifist values – with a burgeoning note of inclusivity amongst the prize-winners. But there was a welcome shot of derangement to be found in this year’s retrospective of Estonia’s wild history of animated wonders, reports Alex Dudok de Wit.
Thursday 20 September 2018
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