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Celestial mail: Poste Restante and the Polish documentary school

A 14-minute mini-masterpiece reminds Michael Brooke of a history of correspondences between the British documentary school and its great Polish counterpart.

Tuesday 2 March 2010

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The Blonde: icon, stereotype, concept

Victim, femme fatale, sexual object… just what is it that fascinates filmmakers about the blonde, asks Lucy Bolton?

Lucy Bolton
Monday 1 March 2010

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A curious faith: on Depeche Mode doc The Posters Came from the Walls

Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams’ documentary depicts the obsessive fandom of Depeche Mode fans around the world. Owen Hatherley on a sad, funny portrait of pop music’s multiple confusions.

Owen Hatherley
Thursday 3 December 2009

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Jean Eustache: He stands alone

Martine Pierquin, curator of the French Film Festival’s Jean Eustache retrospective, probes the career of one of cinema’s most fêted yet unfamiliar auteurs.

Martine Pierquin
Friday 6 November 2009

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Wojciech Has: curiouser and curiouser

Nick Roddick blew his mind in the early 1970s. He tracks down the culprit, the late Polish director Wojciech Has.

Wednesday 30 September 2009

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From the Magazine

The solitary pleasure of Star Wars (from our archive)

In the Autumn 1977 edition of Sight & Sound, Jonathan Rosenbaum decried the “knowing mindlessness” of George Lucas’s space mega-hit – and the sinister implications of its all-conquering escapism.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Tuesday 1 November 1977

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