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  Jean-Luc Godard: 10 essential post-new wave films

  Craig Williams
  Monday 1 February 2016

  Lists

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  Jacques Rivette, 1928–2016

  Jonathan Romney on the most covert of all the French New Wave gang, a visionary who juggled themes of performance and plot while opening up film form to the experience of duration in films like Céline and Julie Go Boating and the monumental Out 1.

  Jonathan Romney
  Sunday 31 January 2016

  Obituaries

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  Out-ward bound: Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 in the Arctic circle

  Flying back from presenting Jacques Rivette’s “profound, dormant monster” Out 1 to an audience of 12 in a wintry Tromsø, Norway, David Thomson ponders the lifelikeness of a film that is boring – in the best sense.

  David Thomson
  Sunday 31 January 2016

  Comment

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  Film of the week: Spotlight

  Tom McCarthy’s engrossing dramatisation of how the Boston Globe uncovered sex abuse in the Catholic Church is a fitting tribute to the journalism’s investigative long road, says Matthew Taylor.

  Matthew Taylor
  Friday 29 January 2016

  Reviews and recommendations

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  Innocence of Memories: ‘We had the Lonely Planet, but Orhan Pamuk was my guide to Istanbul’

  Filmmaker Grant Gee tells us about his nocturnal ode to Istanbul, in which Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk returns to the themes and characters from his novel The Museum of Innocence and the real museum it inspired.

  Simran Hans
  Friday 29 January 2016

  Interviews

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  Anthony Simmons (1922–2016)

  Curator Patrick Russell pays tribute to the late British director Anthony Simmons, best known for his features The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy but with an equally rich background in documentary.

  Patrick Russell
  Friday 29 January 2016

  Features

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  Philip Glass: 10 essential soundtracks

  One of the greatest modern composers, American minimalist Philip Glass has also written countless scores for films, including Candyman, The Truman Show and The Hours. Here are 10 for the desert island.

  Michael Brooke
  Friday 29 January 2016

  Lists

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  Power in Our Hands and other films about the UK deaf community

  A ground-breaking new documentary uses archive film to tell the story of the deaf community’s fight for civil rights in the UK. 

  Ros Cranston , Katy McGahan
  Friday 29 January 2016

  Features

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  10 great films set in Istanbul

  Grant Gee’s Innocence of Memories hits UK screens this week. Its uncanny depiction of Istanbul stands out among a bunch of great films where the city is a source of intrigue and fascination.

  Kaya Genç
  Thursday 28 January 2016

  Lists

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  BFI Statistics 2015: UK independent films win audiences in a blockbuster box office year

  Independent figures published today by the BFI show that in 2015 UK independent films held their own in a record year for the UK box office.

  Thursday 28 January 2016

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