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First-hand evidence: William Gillette’s restored 1916 Sherlock Holmes

Jay Weissberg reports on the restoration premiere of a 99-year-old Holmes adaptation starring one of the Edwardian era’s greatest stage performers of the role.

Jay Weissberg
Tuesday 14 April 2015

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Strife and the city: urban space and the essay film

Jem Cohen’s Counting spurs the question: is the essay film the natural stalking ground for cinema’s lone crusaders? Michael Pattison considers.

Michael Pattison
Thursday 26 March 2015

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Placards of earthly delight: Vera Chytilová’s film posters

Just as Věra Chytilová’s films were avant-garde spectacles, so too were the Czech posters that advertised them, discovers Isabel Stevens.

Monday 16 March 2015

The pictures
A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating

A selection of critics and curators each nominate a vital female voice in film criticism, with an example of their writing.

Miriam Bale, Jemma Desai, Violet Lucca, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Francine Stock, Matthew Sweet, Ben Walters, Rob Winter
Sunday 8 March 2015

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Inside your head: conceptual science fiction

Low-budget, high-philosophy sci-fi forays – including the recent Ex Machina, Predestination and Coherence – remind us of the intrinsic visionary potential of imaginative narrative and editing, says Jonathan Romney.

Tuesday 24 February 2015

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I turn my back on you: black movie poster art

Isabel Stevens on black film posters that both succumbed to and defied racism.

Sunday 22 February 2015

The pictures
Kick me: six Marx Brothers sidekicks

Sabina Stent offers a guide to Groucho, Chico and Harpo’s extended screen family.

Sabina Stent
Friday 16 January 2015

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Back to black: the 101-year making of the oldest black American-starring feature

Ashley Clark on how 1913’s Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day finally got its field day.

Thursday 18 December 2014

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Pure phase: movies melt down

With ‘live’ film shows now the rage, Charlie Lyne journeyed from Copenhagen’s incessantly deconstructionist CPH:DOX to a Frozen singalong to see cinema in a state of liquification.

Charlie Shackleton
Friday 5 December 2014

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From the Magazine

Birth of the Method: the revolution in American acting

Foster Hirsch on the history of the revolution in American acting, plus James Bell’s selection of 12 ‘Method’ classics.

Foster Hirsch
Friday 31 October 2014

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