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From the Magazine
Jonas Mekas: Towards a spontaneous cinema
Jonas Mekas is editor of the American magazine Film Culture. This article is a report from the inside, as it were, on new trends in the non-Hollywood American cinema.
Wednesday 30 January 2019 -
Dau: a never-ending experiment in a Soviet laboratory
Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s epic shoot inside a Stalinist time capsule has finally materialised into an interactive show, comprising several films that are both fascinating and nightmarish. It’s auteur filmmaking on a massive and mindbending scale, writes Geoffrey Macnab.
Thursday 24 January 2019 -
From the Magazine
Jocelyne Saab: history’s witness
For more than four decades, Jocelyne Saab documented conflict and deprivation – especially in her native Lebanon. Following the sad news that the journalist and filmmaker died on 7 January 2019, we are republishing this article by Nicole Brenez on her work.
Thursday 24 January 2019 -
Free Solo: our love affair with the lone hero
An astonishing new documentary records one man’s death-defying climb in Yosemite, California. Isolated on the rock, he embodies the solitary hero of a classic western, writes David Thomson.
Sunday 23 December 2018 -
From the Magazine
Dreaming The Dreamers: Gilbert Adair on working with Bernardo Bertolucci
Critic turned screenwriter Gilbert Adair recalls the experience of adapting his first novel The Holy Innocents as The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci’s portrait of three young cinema lovers caught up in the political turmoil of 1968 Paris.
Wednesday 28 November 2018 -
From the Magazine
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 -
A retrospective at San Sebastian reveals Britain’s most prolific female director to be one of its best, especially when it comes to the ambitious satire of The Passionate Stranger or the magical realism of Happy Family, writes Neil Young.
Tuesday 23 October 2018 -
From the Magazine
Lois Weber: it’s time to celebrate this pioneering director
Once regarded as one of America’s finest directors, Lois Weber was all but written out of film history. Now – with two of her works on Blu-ray and upcoming screenings in Cambridge and Bath – we can see what the fuss was about, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 18 October 2018 -
Skate and awake: how Skate Kitchen confronts skateboarding’s wall of machismo
Crystal Moselle’s fictionalised verité portrait of New York’s all-women Skate Kitchen collective remakes the language of skate cinema to show us a more open, emancipated and inspiring culture, says Sander Hölsgens.
Thursday 27 September 2018 -
A radical vision in east London: collaborative filmmaking at the Four Corners workshop
An exhibition offers the chance to explore how in 1975 an empty shop in Bethnal Green became home to a pioneering set of independent filmmakers whose work boldly focused on under-represented communities, writes Anna Coatman.
Tuesday 25 September 2018
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