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Deep focus: Maurice Pialat – the man who changed French cinema
Maurice Pialat’s stark, unsentimental films left a mark on French cinema that arguably outweighs even that of the nouvelle vague. For our latest Deep Focus season, David Thompson explores the pugnacious realist’s career.
Thursday 17 October 2019 -
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Deep focus: the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
During the middle decades of the last century, Mexico became a powerhouse for film production in Latin America, giving rise to a generation of fabulously talented directors and stars. By Chloë Roddick.
Tuesday 2 July 2019 -
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Fantastique: the dream worlds of French cinema
French cinema has always been lauded for its works of dramatic realism, but from the medium’s earliest days a rival tradition has flourished, incorporating elements of fantasy, horror and science fiction into bizarre, atmospheric tales in which the unexplained and the supernatural intrude into reality. By Virginie Sélavy.
Monday 29 October 2018 -
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Deep focus: The other side of 80s America
Amid the 1980s’ ‘Morning in America’ reckoning, the ‘high concept’ spectacles, cartoonish action and the bottom line, some filmmakers who persisted in making personal, often overlooked films that revealed the other side of Reaganism’s patriotic bluster and hollow optimism. Nick Pinkerton explores the flipside of 1980s American cinema, with a video essay by Sierra Pettengill.
Monday 28 May 2018 -
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Tears and laughter: 10 female stars of Golden Age Japanese cinema
Many of the greatest post-war Japanese films owe much of their power and sophistication to their leading ladies as they explore the experiences of women struggling to find their place in a conservative culture in social and technological flux. Alexander Jacoby profiles ten headline actresses for our latest Deep Focus season.
Thursday 16 November 2017 -
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The black feminine on screen: 11 key auteurs
From Daughters of the Dust to Lemonade, a distinctly interior, subjective aesthetic binds a number of films made by and about black women. Tega Okiti spotlights 11 of the varied individuals and collectives at the heart of this often marginalised cinematic tradition.
Saturday 17 June 2017 -
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How the French birthed film noir
Harder, deeper, darker: Ginette Vincendeau on how the French fused urban realism, underclass romance and shadow politics to produce some of the cinema’s keynote fatal fantasies.
Friday 4 November 2016 -
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Born in the extrovert idealism of the frontier drama, the western was slow to adapt to the social malaise and anti-communist paranoia of the post-war period. Graham Fuller explains how it took its dark turn to incorporate contemporary socio-politics and psychology, with 12 case studies.
Monday 9 May 2016 -
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Nick James explores the enduring influence of the great Russian arthouse pioneer Andrei Tarkovsky on an eclectic array of filmmakers of the past 30 years, from Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick to Béla Tarr and Claire Denis.
Friday 27 November 2015 -
From the Magazine
Nick Pinkerton is your guide through the cinema of the Gothic tradition from the American South – films steeped in dark family secrets, lost loves and the ghosts of slavery, set in crumbling ante-bellum mansions, populated by exiles and eccentrics and coloured by the prospect of macabre violence.
Sunday 10 May 2015
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