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Sight & Sound: the August 2017 issue
Christopher Nolan speaks to us about the making of his WWII epic Dunkirk and his commitment to real film. Plus Sofia Coppola discusses her dream-like The Beguiled, New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud looks back over his career, and Jane Campion and Elisabeth Moss expose the seedy side of Sydney in Top of the Lake.
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War for the Planet of the Apes review: a highly evolved CGI-enhanced epic
With great leaps in motion-capture technology, and a brilliant cast including Andy Serkis and Woody Harrelson, the latest instalment in this sprawling franchise is a rich and satisfying film, writes Kim Newman.
Friday 14 July 2017 -
Willie Doherty’s Loose Ends review: revolution remembered
The Northern Irish artist’s deceptively serene, detached diptychs relate a little-told story of Dublin’s Easter Rising, which begins on the Donegal island of Gola, writes Ian Christie.
Friday 14 July 2017 -
Film of the week: It Comes at Night, an astute and ruthless thriller
While America is ravaged by plague, monstrous forces are unleashed in a besieged family home in Trey Edwards Shults’s expertly handled horror, writes Jason Anderson.
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami: “A stick like that of Punch”
A puppet show gives Albert Lewin’s picaresque “history of a scoundrel” its leading metaphor – a symbol of patriarchal privilege, female oppression and sexual energy, writes Brad Stevens.
Friday 7 July 2017 -
Spider-Man: Homecoming review – Peter Parker as a humble high-school hero
Spidey returns to the big screen as a teenager endowed with superpowers and sound morals, which he channels into some memorable heroics, thanks to Jon Watts’s smart direction and a seamless script, writes Kim Newman.
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
The Tree of Wooden Clogs archive review: a picture of man and God in harmony
Ermanno Olmi’s peasant drama is rereleased in cinemas this weekend. On its first appearance in 1979, John Pym praised its haunting imagery and quiet, unsentimental methods.
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Make it rain: a new chance for short documentaries?
Could the proliferation of online platforms finally mean (some) gold in them short films, asks Charlie Lyne?
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
Visions on: creative documentary at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
Under new chief programmer Luke Moody, Britain’s biggest (and broadest) documentary festival reinforces its interest in documentary cinema’s artistic edge. By Ben Nicholson.
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
Nineteen sixty-seven and all that: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 rewinds 50 years
The spirit of the Summer of Love was revived in Sheffield this year, with films exploring subjects from the bohemian counterculture to revolutionary politics past and present, writes Christina Newland.
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
Transformers: The Last Knight review – a dumbed-down daftfest
If this really is Michael Bay’s final Transformers film, the director has chosen to finish as he started, with a brash, confusing blockbuster that borrows from everywhere and goes nowhere, writes Anton Bitel.
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Barry Norman obituary: British television’s ambassador to the movies
The affable and erudite host of BBC TV’s flagship film programme for a quarter of a century, Barry Norman was the first word on cinema for a generation of British filmgoers, says Geoff Andrew.
Saturday 1 July 2017 -
Film of the week: Baby Driver, Edgar Wright’s mixtape on wheels
This hotshot heist musical is the joyride of Wright’s life, says Henry K. Miller.
Friday 30 June 2017 -
Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 7 & 8 recap – the extremes of experience
After seven episodes of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult series, things seemed to be slowly coming together. One more episode and they had entirely blown apart, says Tom Huddleston.
Thursday 29 June 2017 -
Realm of the senses: alternate realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
The VR stories at this year’s showcase offered more than just 360-degree visuals – visitors were immersed in a world of scents, sounds and emotions, writes Marisol Grandon.
Friday 30 June 2017 -
“Once upon a pair of wheels”… Edgar Wright on Baby Driver and the classic car movies
Rev your headphones for Edgar Wright’s tribute to the neorealist canon of burning rubber thrillers that emerged from the New Hollywood in the late 1960s and 70s, and inspired his musical heist movie Baby Driver, in this video interview by Leigh Singer.
Wednesday 28 June 2017 -
“We will be the mainstream”: female filmmakers talk revolution in Seoul
At the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, a new generation of politically engaged feminists flocked to see female directors and their trailblazing films, reports Sophie Mayer.
Tuesday 27 June 2017
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Wrapped in plasticity: Twin Peaks’ myriad Laura Palmers
Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin conduct a forensic examination of the slippages at play in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surrealistic investigative series.
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Hollywood icon/oclast: the art of Jack Nicholson
From New Hollywood rebel to arch Hollywood devil, Jack Nicholson has been our gold-standard baby boomer, on the run from his demons even as he upends the world – and hounds down the last laugh. As he turns 80, Leigh Singer looks back at the art of Jack.
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It’s complicated: Martin Scorsese’s irresistible passion for the mean streets of his hometown show us not just the psyche of a city, but the soul of a nation, says Leigh Singer.
Friday 3 February 2017 -
Video essay: What is neorealism?
kogonada pits the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind on the same movie material.
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