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Gallery: 70 years of the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes is known for its red-carpet carnival, but look a little beyond it and there are some remarkable photographic pickings to be found from throughout the film festival’s 70-year history.
Friday 26 May 2017 -
From the Magazine
Philadelphia: un-packaging the Hollywood Aids drama
Breaking Hollywood’s on-screen Aids taboo was not the only thing on Jonathan Demme’s mind after the success of The Silence of the Lambs. Amy Taubin looks at the representational coups smuggled into his odd-couple legal drama.
Tuesday 9 May 2017 -
From the Magazine
Swing Shift: the unmaking of a masterpiece?
Watching Jonathan Demme’s original director’s cut of his WWII female factory workers drama makes clear what was lost in its re-editing at the hands of producer-star Goldie Hawn and her allies. By Steve Vineberg.
Tuesday 9 May 2017 -
When did French comedies become so reactionary?
Mock la difference: why has multiculturalism become a joke on the French popular screen, asks Caspar Salmon?
Wednesday 19 April 2017 -
From the Magazine
The Crown: Peter Morgan’s majestic Windsor saga
Peter Morgan has long been fêted for his remarkable ability to animate the personal conflicts that lie behind great historical events, but now he has finally been given a canvas commensurate with his true talents, in the ten-part Netflix series The Crown, which charts Elizabeth II’s early years. He talks to Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 6 April 2017 -
Rewind Fast Forward: Sandi Hughes’s radical film archive
By preserving images of black and gay life in and around Liverpool, Hughes has created a powerful archive of her own, and raw material for other filmmakers to refashion into revelatory new works, writes Grace Barber-Plentie.
Thursday 6 April 2017 -
From the Magazine
A world beyond Bollywood: surveying the new Indian cinema
The extraordinary richness and diversity of India’s movies, not least from its booming independent sector, is the secret to their success, says Meenakshi Shedde.
Tuesday 21 March 2017 -
The internationalism of P.K. Nair, the celluloid man
The great film preservationist saved thousands of films, not just for India but for the whole world. Shruti Narayanswamy and Tim Concannon one of his final interviews, his mission was to save everything, keep everything and screen everything, write Shruti Narayanswamy and Tim Concannon.
Tuesday 21 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
Hooray for Jeni LeGon: the Hollywood pioneer who “danced like a boy”
Hollywood’s ingrained racism deprived Jeni LeGon of a great dance career – an emblematic injustice that’s both recounted and countered in Zadie Smith’s brilliant new novel Swing Time, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Wednesday 8 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
Patience (After Sebald): under the sign of Saturn
Grant Gee’s film Patience (After Sebald) and a recent symposium inspire Mark Fisher to revisit The Rings of Saturn, the Suffolk odyssey of German-born writer W.G. Sebald.
Tuesday 24 January 2017
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