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Remembering Takahata Isao, 1935-2018
Tributes to the late Studio Ghibli co-founder by directors Sylvain Chomet, Tomm Moore, Michael Dudok de Wit and Michel Ocelot, and animation scholars Jayne Pilling, Ilan Nguyen and Xavier Kawa-Topor.
Wednesday 9 May 2018 -
Looking backwards, moving forwards: 10 of the best at Sci-Fi-London 2018
This year’s festival contains a paradoxical set of films that merge progression and retrospection to mind-bending effect, from the imaginatively unhinged mind games of Nothing Really Happens to movies exploring retrofuturism, resurrection and regression, writes Anton Bitel.
Friday 27 April 2018 -
Uncertain countries: rethinking the landscape film at Frames of Representation 2018
This year’s festival of cinematic nonfiction at the ICA probes the theme of ‘landscape’ – less as a discipline than a metaphor for the ways we build our worldview, says Ben Nicholson.
Friday 27 April 2018 -
Vittorio Taviani obituary: a poetic witness to Italy’s political drama
From Allonsanfàn to Padre Padrone, Night of the Shooting Stars to Caesar Must Die, Vittorio and his surviving brother Paolo distilled their country’s post-war convulsions with a weightless eloquence and imagination, says Celluloid Liberation Front.
Wednesday 25 April 2018 -
Delusional Albion: how foreign directors saw Swinging 60s Britain
From Repulsion to Blowup and beyond, 1960s movies made in Britain by foreign directors had something unsettling to tell us about a nation in flux – a warning that may yet reflect on our Brexit era, writes Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 24 April 2018 -
Juraj Herz obituary: a one-man wave of Czechoslovak horror
The director of The Cremator, Morgiana and many more gothic gems still awaiting discovery in the West, Herz was an anomaly amongst his Czech New Wave contemporaries, as varied as he was prolific, says Kat Ellinger.
Thursday 19 April 2018 -
Milos Forman obituary: the bohemian who conquered Hollywood
The Oscar-fêted director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus forged his voice as one of the authorities’ least favourite movers of the Czech New Wave, writes Michael Brooke.
Tuesday 17 April 2018 -
Susan Anspach obituary: ethereal star of New Hollywood
Elusive but unforgettable, the Five Easy Pieces and Blume in Love actress left an indelible impression in her too-brief career on screen, remembers Peter Tonguette.
Monday 16 April 2018 -
Cannes ups its game: the 2018 programme isn’t resting on any laurels
With innovation and discoveries the promise at a decidedly not on-demand festival, Cannes seems to have decided to burnish its leadership credentials, says Nick Roddick.
Monday 16 April 2018 -
Barbara Stone obituary: a legendary force in film culture
From promoting New American Cinema in the 60s and founding the Gate chain in the 1970s to producing movies for decades afterwards, Stone was at the centre of the international film scene for more than half a century, recalls David Robinson.
Thursday 12 April 2018
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