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  • From the Magazine

    The essay film

    Andrew Tracy explores the characteristics that have come to define this most elastic of forms, while eight more contributors highlight a dozen influential milestone essay films, from Jean Vigo to Chris Marker.

    Andrew Tracy, Katy McGahan, Olaf Möller, Sergio Wolf, Nina Power
    Saturday 3 August 2013

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  • Lost spirit: M. Night Shyamalan

    These are disheartening times for the wunderkind behind The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Can the former golden boy ever recover his magic, asks Joseph Bevan?

    Joseph Bevan
    Thursday 27 June 2013

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  • Eastern Europe’s uprooted

    With old structures failing a new generation of filmmakers, what are the hopes for arthouse cinema from the east, asks Verena von Stackelberg?

    Verena von Stackelberg
    Friday 21 June 2013

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  • Second youth: the golden age of Nikkatsu Studios

    Jasper Sharp on how Japan’s oldest film studio became home to the country’s hippest post-war talents.

    Jasper Sharp
    Tuesday 4 June 2013

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  • Man on fire: Tony Scott

    Joseph Bevan on how a North Shields art student set the world agog.

    Joseph Bevan
    Wednesday 15 May 2013

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  • Beau Brum: remembering the Birmingham Arts Lab

    How the 1960s and 70s counter-cultural hub movement took root in England’s second city.


    Tuesday 19 March 2013

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  • The other ‘Asia extreme’

    Anton Bitel explores the outer edges of Eastern identity at the Pan-Asia Film Festival.


    Tuesday 5 March 2013

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  • Lost and found: Chameleon Street

    Wendell B. Harris’s Chameleon Street is a gloriously strange one-off that deserves to be enjoyed by a new generation, says Ashley Clark.


    Thursday 31 January 2013

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  • From the Magazine

    Duty calls: Zero Dark Thirty

    In our rolling-news age, Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller arrives only 18 months after the bin Laden kill mission it depicts. Is such haste at the expense of perspective, asks Michael Atkinson?


    Tuesday 29 January 2013

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  • Beatitude: the real Beat cinema

    With Jack Kerouac’s era-defining 1957 cult novel On the Road finally reaching the screen as costume drama, Stuart Heaney remembers the writer’s celluloid fellow-travellers.

    Stuart Heaney
    Thursday 1 November 2012

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