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Kim Dongwon: a documentary filmmaker for Korea’s changing times
South Korea’s political Left has followed an evolving journey since the end of military government in the 1990s – and Kim Dongwon has been there following it. Tony Rayns surveys a retrospective of the godfather of the country’s social-protest documentaries.
Monday 17 September 2018 -
Lucky: days and years with Harry Dean Stanton, by his friend and PA Logan Sparks
Longtime PA and friend to the late Harry Dean Stanton, Logan Sparks also co-wrote and -produced the actor’s final role, as the lead in Lucky. He shares his memories, video clips and photos on the shoot and off it with Leigh Singer.
Sunday 16 September 2018 -
Nathaniel Dorsky’s Arboretum Cycle: the photosynthesis of film
The artist-filmmaker captures a rare sculptural quality of light in his latest work, which comprises seven films of plant life in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, plunging the audience into the undergrowth, writes Matt Turner.
Tuesday 31 July 2018 -
Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Doc/Visions 2018: changing tides in documentary cinema
Nonfiction film is in a fascinating state of flux right now, as the creative programming at Sheffield this year revealed, with many titles expanding our ideas about cinematic reality, reports Ben Nicholson.
Tuesday 31 July 2018 -
From the Magazine
Thrill of the Hunt: Tom Cruise and the Mission: Impossible franchise
A strong contender for the most consistently cinematic franchise of the last 25 years, the Mission: Impossible films also offer a case study in the idea of the actor as auteur, with Tom Cruise continuing to present himself as a fearless screen immortal in Fallout, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Friday 27 July 2018 -
El Grito: the film banned for revealing the truth about Mexico in 1968
In the summer of revolt, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up close – and like many of his subjects and fellow comrades, would pay a high price for his audacity. Fifty years later, his movie is no longer a secret, writes Felix Bazalgette.
Saturday 21 July 2018 -
Paul Schrader’s priests and transcendental style: from Dominion to First Reformed
Can the writer-director’s analysis of Robert Bresson’s work and his much maligned entry in the Exorcist franchise help us to understand his latest thriller, asks Gillian Horvat.
Thursday 12 July 2018 -
From the Magazine
The nonconformist: Marco Bellocchio and his protest cinema
In a career steeped in Italian history, and spanning more than half a century, the director’s by turns defiantly and slyly anti-authoritarian films have been marked by a mordant sense of authority’s enduring appeal, writes Henry K. Miller.
Monday 9 July 2018 -
Shoah: “The enormity is too huge and the hour too late”
Shoah – the title is the Hebrew word for ‘Annihilation’ – took ten years to compl
Thursday 5 July 2018 -
How Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey probed the British obsession with class
In The Servant, Accident and The Go-Between, the writer and director expressed their disdain for institutional snobbery but also revealed themselves to be deeply fascinated by this social corruption, writes Nick James.
Wednesday 27 June 2018
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