Tim Hayes

Articles by Tim Hayes

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  Tenderise the night: Zack Snyder v the raw world

  V for vitiated: Tim Hayes on the solemn decadence of Warner-DC’s superhero universe, and the millenarian vision of its annointed svengali Zack Snyder.

  Thursday, March 31, 2016

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  Remember life: the best international live-action shorts at Encounters 2015

  Punk springs eternal as America’s Jennifer Reeder won her second consecutive Grand Prix for Blood Below the Skin, but otherwise the spirit of mittel-European social realism stood tall at Bristol’s short film festival, reports Tim Hayes.

  Wednesday, October 21, 2015

  Festivals

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  Radical Bristol 2015: back to the cinema of the future?

  Four decades after Bristol hosted its inaugural festival of radical independent cinema – is it time for a second try, asks Tim Hayes?

  Wednesday, October 7, 2015

  Festivals

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  Keeping our end up? Edinburgh 2015’s Best of British

  For all the Edinburgh Film Festival’s serial changes of leadership, this year’s native showcase yet again struggled to find enough titles above the humdrum. Is this as good as it gets, asks Tim Hayes?

  Monday, July 6, 2015

  Festivals

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  I sing the body elastic: a lament at the straightening of superheroes

  The new generation of wittily weaponised superheroes have forsaken their transgressive body politics to join the modern order, bemoans Tim Hayes.

  Thursday, January 29, 2015

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  Encounters 2014: inhabit the home of one’s enemy

  Marking its 20th anniversary with a transitional event, Bristol’s Encounters festival juggled art and industry, new movies with greatest hits, and brought the radical in from the fringe. Tim Hayes reports.

  Wednesday, October 1, 2014

  Festivals