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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 -
Real news from the heartlands: Wiseman, Moore and Morris take on Trump
If documentaries can react to our times faster than fiction films, how do the latest from three American masters – Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, Errol Morris’s American Dharma and Fred Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana – probe the meaning of Trumpism, asks Tom Charity.
Wednesday 17 October 2018 -
Ray Galton obituary: a pen against the tide
With Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe & Son, the late screenwriting duo Galton & Simpson defined the post-war British TV sitcom as they lampooned the age that bore it, writes Andrew Roberts.
Wednesday 17 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 -
Grace Elliott: a woman filming a woman interviewing a man
A mysterious female director created these short and surprising publicity segments in the early 1930s. What else could she have done on a larger canvas, asks Brad Stevens.
Thursday 11 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
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