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Seymour Cassel obituary: a winning American loser
John Cassavetes’ find and friend was too carefree to seek stardom, but in his one lead as Gena Rowlands’ schmo-suitor Moskowitz, he will abide, says Tom Charity.
Monday 15 April 2019 -
Seven silent self-willed heroines at HippFest 2019
As a corrective to the stereotype of women in silent cinema as invariably passive and helpless, Falkirk’s go-get Hippodrome Silent Film Festival this year showcased an international spectrum of female protagonists young and old, reports Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 4 April 2019 -
Fostering a new Scottish cinema at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
At the quietly radical Glasgow Short Film Festival, local filmmaking talent was in rude health, which augurs well for the future of the national industry, reports Jamie Dunn.
Thursday 4 April 2019 -
Barbara Hammer obituary: an experimental pioneer who put lesbian life on screen
Sex, experimentation and the urge to change the world for the better run through the fascinating oeuvre of the filmmaker who almost singlehandedly defined lesbian cinema, writes So Mayer.
Thursday 4 April 2019 -
Agnès Varda obituary: a luminous art of an illuminated life
An unstoppably playful radical, Agnès Varda channelled a war-swept childhood into the determination to cherish and honour the personal, the marginal and the vital, records So Mayer.
Friday 29 March 2019 -
Disrupting the director: when an auteur meets the Method
What do you do with an actor who refuses to take direction? Marlon Brando was too wild for Stanley Kubrick, whereas Arthur Penn built The Missouri Breaks around his performative anarchism. But perhaps Kubrick had already learned the lesson working around Peter Sellers on Lolita, writes Brad Stevens.
Monday 25 March 2019 -
Dreaming an altered future at True/False 2019
Columbia, Missouri’s brilliantly irregular gem of a festival was especially provocative this year, dissolving boundaries and asking challenging questions, not just about the documentary form but about art, activism and our collective agency, writes Sophie Brown.
Thursday 14 March 2019 -
Clermont-Ferrand 2019: seven of the best short films
The programme at the world’s biggest short film festival reflect the event itself – eclectic, and somewhat anarchic. Laurence Boyce rounds up some of the best of this annual state-of-the-art snapshot.
Wednesday 13 March 2019 -
Glasgow Film Festival 2019: a vital antidote to one-size cinema
This year’s programme was about more than just big-ticket premieres, offering local filmgoers precious access to word-of-mouth independent movies – an opportunity all the more welcome amidst the current battles over distribution models and windows, reports Rebecca Harrison.
Wednesday 13 March 2019 -
From the Magazine
Invisible women: how film history erases female filmmakers
“With footnotes, parentheses, half-sentences, or no mention at all, many talented, hard-working women of the past have become virtually invisible in recorded film history,” Cecile Starr here noted in 1980.
Friday 8 March 2019
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