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  In search of lost time: Bryan Singer’s superhero mind games

  Tim Hayes revisits the origin story of Bryan Singer, the greatest of the modern superhero directors, for whom self-knowledge is the ultimate quest and question.

  Tim Hayes
  Friday 13 May 2016

  Features

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  I, Daniel Blake – first look

  Ken Loach is back on song with a protest cry for common humanity in the face of modern Britain’s welfare web, says Geoff Andrew.

  Geoff Andrew
  Friday 13 May 2016

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  10 great films about sisters

  More films for the watchlist: Mustang and other notable movies that explore the sisterly bond.

  Simran Hans
  Thursday 12 May 2016

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  Sieranevada – first look

  Cristi Puiu hones the art of Romanian realism with a deadpan family-wake drama that’s his most approachable film since The Death of Mr Lazarescu.

  Geoff Andrew
  Thursday 12 May 2016

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  The invisible woman: film’s gender bias laid bare

  Three recent reports conclusively prove that female filmmakers are underrepresented across all sectors of the international industry, and urge institutional change to redress the balance. By Nikki Baughan.

  Nikki Baughan
  Wednesday 11 May 2016

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  Remembering John Krish (1923-2016)

  Our tributes to the great British filmmaker John Krish, who has died aged 92.

  Patrick Russell , Sam Dunn , Maggi Hurt
  Wednesday 11 May 2016

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  Tales of a film editor: the making of Olivier’s Hamlet

  Read exclusive extracts from the memoirs of Helga Cranston, who arrived in wartime London as a Jewish refugee and found work as an editor for Laurence Olivier.

  Nathalie Morris
  Tuesday 10 May 2016

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  Club class: Cannes’s 2016 intake

  Cannes wants to be a meritocracy. But who gets to play, asks Nick Bradshaw?

  Nick Bradshaw
  Tuesday 10 May 2016

  Festivals

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  Video: A speck in the cosmos – the inner frontiers of Raoul Walsh’s Pursued

  Tag Gallagher offers a psychological reading of Raoul Walsh’s 1947 Robert Mitchum starrer Pursued, perhaps Hollywood’s first psychological western and certainly one of its weirdest.

  Tag Gallagher
  Monday 9 May 2016

  Video

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  Westward the women! Distaff furies of the psychological west

  There’s never been anything quite like Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar, but many other post-war westerns of the era also found great post-frontier roles for women, writes Imogen Sara Smith.

  Imogen Sara Smith
  Monday 9 May 2016

  Features

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