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Artists in the houses: Berwick 2015
Harriet Warman reports on the multiple permutations of fact, fiction, moving images and installation spaces presented at the borderlands festival of ‘film and media art’ under its new director Peter Taylor.
Thursday 5 November 2015 -
Expanding your world: Bertha DocHouse in the Curzon Bloomsbury
In the third of our video reports about London’s 2015 batch of cinema initiatives, Edward Lawrenson prowls a Tarkovsky-inspired renovation of the former Curzon Renoir, where he finds DocHouse director Elizabeth Wood explaining her ambitions for a dedicated space to host the best of documentary cinema.
Thursday 5 November 2015 -
Brief Encounter – a return ticket to Temptation
Don’t be put off by its reputation as a classic, David Lean’s 70-year-old Brief Encounter is proper grit-in-the-eye cinema even today… whether you’ve got servants at home or not.
Wednesday 4 November 2015 -
Bodies and film: Experimenta 2015 at the London Film Festival
Sophie Mayer on this year’s London Film Festival experimental allsorts, including revivals of the 1970s films of Argentina’s Marie Louise Alemann and New Zealand’s Joanna Margaret Paul, and new highlights from Tacita Dean, Sarah Turner, Vivienne Dick, Mike Kuchar, Jennifer Reeder and more.
Wednesday 4 November 2015 -
British Independent Film Awards 2015: the nominations in full
The Lobster leads the way with seven nominations, while 45 Years and Macbeth both get six.
Tuesday 3 November 2015
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Infographic: The Rules of Attraction
On screen, when one becomes two there’s usually a formula at work. Watch enough films — as we have — and you start seeing patterns…
Tuesday 3 November 2015
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Lost Disney film found in the BFI National Archive
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the first-ever Disney character and a long-eared precursor to Mickey Mouse, features in this long-lost animated film.
Tuesday 3 November 2015
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Why I love... Fatal Attraction
Both endings are terrible, the plot inherently misogynist – but I can’t help loving this troubling thriller.
Tuesday 3 November 2015 -
Provincial pleasures: eight evocative films of Northern Ireland
Highlights from a treasure trove of films shot in Northern Ireland.
Tuesday 3 November 2015 -
Chariots of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland dies aged 81
An Oscar-winning screenwriter and BAFTA-winning actor, Welland famously declared ‘The British are coming’ at the 1982 Oscars.
Tuesday 3 November 2015
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