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Wake work: how Spike Lee’s soulful documentaries explore personal and public grieving
The BlacKkKlansman director’s nonfiction films earnestly and cathartically portray black vulnerability, showing how those left behind take up the legacy of their dead, writes Kelli Weston.
Friday 24 August 2018 -
Flights of fantasy: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2018
Though it may not aspire to the highest critical standards in its programming, South Korea’s second international film festival screens the fantasy genre hits which many ‘proper’ festivals don’t deign to, reports Tony Rayns.
Friday 17 August 2018 -
Ulu Grosbard’s Georgia: a melodrama as mysterious as real life
Could the ultimate puzzle film be one that can’t be solved, asks Brad Stevens. Such as this little-seen 1995 movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, which has a perplexing question at its core?
Tuesday 14 August 2018 -
Tamura Masaki obituary: great Japanese cinematographer who was “impossible to imitate”
From shooting the acclaimed documentaries of Ogawa Shinsuke to such cult favourites as Lady Snowblood and Tampopo, this director of photography did much to define the look of modern Japanese cinema, recalls Abé Markus Nornes.
Thursday 9 August 2018 -
Podcast: FrightFest 2017 critics’ roundtable post-mortem
A look back at the best of last year’s FrightFest with Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy.
Monday 6 August 2018 -
Political panic: the timeliest terrors at FrightFest 2018
Many of the best films at this year’s London horror festival reflect our uneasiest concerns about fake news and bad government – uncomfortable viewing for a turbulent age, writes Anton Bitel.
Monday 6 August 2018 -
Strongmen take all at Karlovy Vary 2018
Three studies of mighty male monsters won the three top prizes at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Sign of the times, asks Jessica Kiang.
Sunday 22 July 2018 -
Impressions of Agnès: Varda impresses London
As the celebratory centrepiece of a two-month retrospective, and en route to unveiling a new commission at the Liverpool Biennale, cinema’s great impressionist regaled the audience at BFI Southbank with a demonstration of her creative leaps and bounds. So Mayer reports.
Tuesday 17 July 2018 -
Local heroes: new Scottish features at Edinburgh 2018
By the end of the festival, survivalist thriller Calibre was already available on Netflix, but it wasn’t the only Scottish feature in the lineup worth seeking out, from Mark Cousins’s split-screen analysis of Hollywood and race to a musical zombie comedy and more, reports Josh Slater-Williams.
Wednesday 11 July 2018 -
The Freudian revenge of David Lean’s Madeleine
David Lean’s much maligned adaptation of a true-life 19th-century murder case, with Ann Todd as a woman accused of poisoning her lover, is a slippery melodrama whose upper-class trappings mask a subversive rape-revenge core, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 11 July 2018
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