David Tedeschi and Martin Scorsese’s The 50 Year Argument and Kevin Cameron’s Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress both essay mind maps of wordsmiths against the tide, finds Thirza Wakefield.
Marketeers, note: artful, exciting, shape-shifting documentaries may have a renewed energy – but the fact of them is as old as the movies, says Robert Greene.
Anton Bitel rounds up recent highlights from the Philippines’ broad and bustling film industry – plus a missive from Mongolia that couldn’t be ignored.
Congratulations to Cannes’ rising stars Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Alice Rohrwacher; commiserations to the ill-rewarded Marion Cotillard and Abderrahmane Sissako, says Nick James.
Ken Loach winds down half a century of fiction-film mastery with a relatively minor study of a dissident spirit in post-revolutionary Ireland, reports Nick Roddick.
The country’s shiny-booted bosses may have looked away, but Turkish film watchers have long known about exploitative conditions down their mines, says Kaya Genç.