Geoff Andrew roams from Raoul Walsh’s grand west and Sergio Leone’s expanded gangster epic to the less-fêted works of Jean Grémillon at Bologna’s festival of recovery and discovery.
Excellent features from Adrian Sitaru and Radu Jude, and a standout portrait of Nicolae Ceausescu, trumped efforts to overhaul the house style at this fountainhead of the Romanian New Wave.
This year’s IndieLisboa took place under the cloud of absolute public-funding cuts to Portuguese cinema. Álvaro Arroba reports from the home of the world’s perennial filmmaking vanguard.
Kieron Corless hears film essayists (or are they?) Noël Burch and Allan Sekula chew over their epic and sobering new portrait of high-seas globalisation.