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Preaching about the perverted: sadomasochistic romance on screen
The leather-styled trappings of BDSM culture have often drawn filmmakers’ attention – but not all portraits of sadomasochistic relationships are equal, finds Anna Bogutskaya.
Friday 10 April 2020 -
All I desire: women watching men at the movies
To mark the publication of Christina Newland’s new collection of women’s film writing She Found It at the Movies, here’s her manifesto for a proudly subjective, impressionistic and lusty female film criticism, from our October 2017 issue.
Tuesday 31 March 2020 -
From the Magazine
The British cinematographer Roger Deakins is one of the greatest artists of light and shade in movie history. Joshua Rothkopf picks ten shots that show off different facets of his greatness.
Tuesday 24 March 2020 -
Crip Camp: where disabled teenagers found freedom and a voice
A joyful portrait of a 70s summer camp for young people reveals a community ahead of its time that was a catalyst for disability activism, writes Sophie Monks Kaufman.
Wednesday 11 March 2020 -
Max von Sydow: Bergman and beyond
In tribute to the late great Swedish actor, who has died aged 90, we republish Geoffrey Macnab’s 2005 profile of this existential giant and his journey beyond being Bergman’s alter ego to international stardom.
Monday 9 March 2020 -
Brazilian films may have had a triumphant 2019, but the assault on filmmaking by right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is threatening the very fabric of the country’s cinema. By Jonathan Romney.
Monday 9 March 2020 -
A womb of one’s own: a short history of abortion on film
A tenderly handled subplot in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire reminds us how rarely the termination of a pregnancy features in cinema, and how such stories tend to turn out, writes Violet Lucca.
Monday 24 February 2020 -
Carrying the flame of the Black Film Workshop
Second Sight, a touring programme of black British filmmaking past and present, looks to revive the spirit of the 1980s film workshop movement with four new commissions. What are the prospects for this new generation, asks Grace Barber-Plentie.
Tuesday 18 February 2020 -
“The tramp stuff”: when Hitchcock first came to Hollywood
Newly discovered articles reveal how the master of suspense pounded the pavements of Los Angeles when he first came to America, and how his plans to make a film about the Titanic disaster fell through. By Henry K. Miller.
Friday 14 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
The many faces of Federico Fellini – part four: la famiglia Fellini
As a major BFI retrospective celebrates the centenary of Fellini’s birth, we explore some of the themes that made his work such a dazzling highpoint in 20th-century art cinema, here with Philip Kemp on the director’s close family of collaborators.
Friday 7 February 2020
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