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What makes a good casting director? Laura Rosenthal and the indefinable art
After a London Film Festival audience with the woman who helps Todd Haynes, Kelly Reichardt and Paolo Sorrentino pick their actors, Thirza Wakefield reflects on the lack of critical discourse around this elusive profession.
Wednesday 14 October 2015 -
The big-top blowout – Guy Maddin at the IMAX, London 2015
The mad magpie of Canadian cinema went down the rabbit hole at London’s biggest screen with The Forbidden Room, a pulsating extravaganza of mock movie reclamation. Virginie Selavy reports on our LFF Experimenta gala, and his ensuing LFF Connects talk.
Tuesday 13 October 2015 -
Three of the best at Camden 2015
Nick Pinkerton on three motley ethnographic missives – featuring rugby-playing Kiwi cowhands, roisterous Innuit YouTubers and public servants gone to seed in the Democratic Republic of Congo – at Maine’s festival safe harbour for cinematic documentaries.
Monday 12 October 2015 -
Rendezvous with Chantal Akerman
Nick James pays tribute to the slow-awing minimalist sights and resonant sounds of the late Chantal Akerman’s cinema.
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
Chantal Akerman, guiding light
Robert Greene reflects on the formative influence of the late, fearless visionary and perennial hero.
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
Radical Bristol 2015: back to the cinema of the future?
Four decades after Bristol hosted its inaugural festival of radical independent cinema – is it time for a second try, asks Tim Hayes?
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
FrightFest 2015: Critics’ roundtable post-mortem
From crazy ladies and final girls to fables of confinement and madness and a resurgence of British grand guignol, this year’s London horror-film showcase had plenty to chew over – as Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy demonstrate.
Wednesday 30 September 2015 -
Missing believed garbled: Hitchcock’s first steps in film
Hitchcock scholars’ hopes were dashed at 2015’s British Silent Film Festival by the hand of historico-cinematic sabotage, reports Henry K. Miller.
Thursday 24 September 2015 -
The comfort of disaster (movies)
The 1970s were a chaotic time, Hollywood overrun by deranged auteurs. Luckily there were still a column of white-bread movie stars on hand to save the day, says Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 23 September 2015 -
A series of stumbles: in the footsteps of Richard Williams and Norman McLaren
Animator Mikey Please ponders the winding road to animation fluency, and the rich inspiration drawn from two masters of the form.
Friday 11 September 2015
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