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Dream palaces: Mark Cousins on Sarajevo’s Obala cinema and watching films in a war zone
Filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins remembers an underground cinema during the Bosnian war.
Tuesday 28 April 2020 -
Present.Perfect. director Zhu Shengze reflects on going to the movies as a young girl in China and how a cinema in Columbia, Missouri kept her loneliness at bay when she moved to America.
Friday 24 April 2020 -
Dream palaces: Peter Strickland on the Husets Biograf, Copenhagen’s cinematic cabinet of curiosities
Berberian Sound Studio and In Fabric director Peter Strickland salutes a haven in Copenhagen for cinephiles with a predilection for the wayward.
Tuesday 21 April 2020 -
Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 4: viva la tristeza!
In the fourth entry of Pedro Almodóvar’s Covid-19 quarantine journal, the Spanish director muses on sadness, sex and financial support for the cultural sector.
Monday 20 April 2020 -
Dream palaces: Wanuri Kahiu pays tribute to Nairobi’s Fox drive-in cinema
Rafiki director Wanuri Kahiu recalls the magical thrill of a family visit to the drive-in as a young girl in Kenya in the early 1990s.
Wednesday 15 April 2020 -
Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 3: book and film recommendations
In the third entry of Pedro Almodóvar’s Covid-19 quarantine journal, the Spanish director divulges all the reading and watching keeping his melancholy and sadness at bay during self-isolation.
Tuesday 14 April 2020 -
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 -
Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 2: Warren Beatty, Madonna and I
In the second part of his journal of Covid-19 quarantine, the Spanish director writes about escaping out of his apartment for the first time in 17 days – and into memories of Madonna, Warren Beatty and the Oscars.
Friday 10 April 2020 -
Dream palaces: Richard Stanley hymns London’s Scala cinema
The director of Dust Devil, Hardware and Color Out of Space recalls dealing drugs to Dario Argento at the cultiest of all London cinemas.
Thursday 9 April 2020 -
Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 1: the long journey to the night
In the first part of his journal of Covid-19 quarantine, written on 23 March, the Spanish director details how he is coping with self-isolation and the films he has found solace in, from Goldfinger to 1950s American B-movies.
Wednesday 8 April 2020
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