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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 -
Virtual voyages at Venice Film Festival 2018
A well-curated selection of immersive adventures at this year’s festival showed how far the technology and the talent has come, but also how different these experiences are from cinema, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Thursday 20 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 -
Burt Reynolds obituary: a blithe legend
As wry as he was virile, Burt Reynolds wore his stardom with a nonchalance, a fallibility and sense of camaraderie, that made it all the warmer while it lasted, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Monday 17 September 2018 -
The weight of death in documentary
Considering Island, Steven Eastwood’s documentary portrait of four dying patients at a hospice on the Isle of Wight, Sophie Monks Kaufman asks: why are we drawn to fictional moving images of death, yet fear their nonfiction counterparts?
Friday 14 September 2018 -
The Cruise at 20: looking back at the movie that broke the DV revolution
Twenty years ago, a tiny documentary by a future Hollywood A-Lister made waves at the Toronto International Film Festival – and changed movies forever. By Robert Greene.
Thursday 13 September 2018 -
Steady-stare surveillance, or the spatial turn in nonfiction films
In a world that increasingly overturns geographic specifics, is attention to space a new mode of artistic dissent? Michael Pattison considers the question in light of two new landscape documentaries.
Sunday 9 September 2018 -
Venice 2018 midway round-up: a quadruple whammy
New films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Alfonso Cuarón, Jacques Audiard and László Nemes are the highlights so far at a sterling – if very masculine – Venice Film Festival, reports Nick James.
Tuesday 4 September 2018 -
Barbara Harris obituary: a special screen presence
The ethereal actress with cherubic looks and a spaced-out vibe turned in great performances whether singing It Don’t Worry Me in Nashville or winking to camera at the end of Hitchcock’s Family Plot, writes Peter Tonguette.
Friday 31 August 2018
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