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Bright Sunshine In review: Juliette Binoche rings love’s changes
In Claire Denis’s low-key rondo, archetypal romantic situations elicit subtle yet surprising transformations in the character of Binoche’s newly divorced painter as she returns to the romantic fray, writes Nick James.
Saturday 20 May 2017 -
Loveless review: Andrey Zvyagintsev finds resonances in a Russian family falling apart
The Russian director’s fifth feature is an enigmatic, and very rewarding, film about a missing child, a dissolving marriage and a country in crisis. At its best, it’s cinematic poetry, writes Geoff Andrew.
Saturday 20 May 2017 -
Western review: once upon a time in modern-day eastern Europe
Valeska Grisebach’s stunning existential study of masculinity tips its hat to classic genre cinema even as it casts an extraordinary troupe of non-professional actors as its grizzled migrant construction workers in a foreign land, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
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Chamber trouble: Tom Benn on scripting his first short, Real Gods Require Blood
Manchester-born and -blooded crime writer Tom Benn tells Michael Pattison about the cinema that influenced his screenplay for a kitchen-sink horror set during the satanic abuse panic of the early 1990s, which premieres at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
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Wonderstruck review: Todd Haynes’s split-era kids’ yarn provides sumptuous but saccharine cinephilia
Haynes’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s twin-track children’s detective adventure revels in the eloquence of silent cinema and gorgeous evocations of vintage New York, but falls dramatically flat, writes Sophie Monks Kaufman.
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Okja review: Bong Joon-ho’s rampant superpig spectacle tickles and troubles
With Tilda Swinton in a dual role leading a mostly excellent cast, the Host director’s snazzy science fiction succeeds as both a critique of the modern meat industry and a bittersweet tale of the bond between a girl and a mighty beast, writes Trevor Johnston.
Friday 19 May 2017
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Film of the week: The Levelling unearths secrets from a sodden landscape
Hope Dickson Leach’s powerful and precise debut feature stages a family tragedy in flood-ravaged Somerset, where stifled emotions threaten to overflow like river water, writes Anton Bitel.
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Film of the week: Mindhorn – Julian Barratt’s big ham takes the Isle of Man
The Mighty Boosh comedian mixes Bergerac with Partridge as an offshore ex-TV detective offered another grab at glory by a demented nemesis in this zealously silly action-comedy, says Philip Kemp.
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Jonathan Demme obituary: a cinema of heart and soul, funk and fight
From the Roger Corman pumphouse to The Silence of the Lambs’s Oscar triumph, Stop Making Sense’s concert-doc ingenuity to portraits of social-justice fighters, Jonathan Demme left a legacy of richly independent movies celebrating life’s underdogs, writes David Thompson.
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Film of the week: Lady Macbeth pares the period film back to its bones
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Factory records: workers of the world, across 11 new documentaries
The latest nonfiction movie forays showcased in the ICA’s second Frames of Representation festival explore modern regimes of labour, physical discipline and social control, says Ben Nicholson.
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This comic-book sequel is an enjoyably nostalgic second excursion with lovable scruffs from the far reaches of the Marvel canon – but while the fun factor remains, the novelty is wearing thin, writes Kim Newman.
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Film of the week: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki finds romance outside the ring
In Finland in the 1960s, a promising young boxer must choose between sporting success and settling down with the woman he loves. In the deft interplay between fighter, coach and girlfriend, this low-key film lands an emotional punch, writes Hannah McGill.
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Feet in the water: Flatpack 2017 goes back to nature
From a canal-focused Gongoozling Day to celebrations of film naturalists Jean Painlevé and F. Percy Smith, the 11th Flatpack Film Festival transported audiences on a series of hypnotic encounters with nature and the aquatic, reports Thirza Wakefield.
Wednesday 26 April 2017 -
Ishtar, Elaine May and the road not taken
This misunderstood 1980s comedy critiqued 1980s American foreign policy and parodied male narcissism, which is probably why it also destroyed its director’s career, writes Brad Stevens.
Monday 24 April 2017 -
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Mock la difference: why has multiculturalism become a joke on the French popular screen, asks Caspar Salmon?
Wednesday 19 April 2017 -
Film of the week: The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook’s intricate erotic intrigue
This adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith from the South Korean director of Oldboy cocoons a tale of illicit lesbian passion in an intricate, mutable narrative that’s as labyrinthine as its gothic mansion setting, writes Jonathan Romney.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder interviewed in 1974: “The primary need is to satisfy the audience”
In this interview from our archives, Fassbinder discusses with Tony Rayns the development of his thinking about how to make political cinema, the varying ways he combines realism and stylisation in his films – and his love of Douglas Sirk.
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Incoming: Richard Mosse’s heat-map images dazzle in the political darkness
Putting military-grade thermal cameras to eye-openingly artistic use, Richard Mosse’s installation film holds a torch for the huddled victims of war and state failure, says Nick James.
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Terence Davies’s biopic of the aberrant American poet gives free reign to an artist impeded in her lifetime, says Thirza Wakefield.
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Podcast: three critics discuss the best of BFI Flare 2017
Alex Davidson, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters discuss the best of the year’s London LGBT film fiesta – from the half-century commemoration of the Sexual Offences Act to The Untamed’s alien sex octopus.
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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.
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Video: A tour through French noir
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