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Alloyed art: Now Showing – A Group Exhibit of Artists’ Film

This latest survey of the state of artists’ movies celebrates the cultural and technological ambiguities and impurities of the moment – and is best at its furthest remove from pure classical ‘film’, says Elisabetta Fabrizi.

Elisabetta Fabrizi
Friday 31 January 2014

Reviews and recommendations
Fellini’s commercials

Celluloid Liberation Front visits il maestro’s late-life misadventures (and mischief) in consumerville.

Celluloid Liberation Front
Sunday 26 January 2014

Bytes
From the Magazine

Film of the week: Inside Llewyn Davis

The Coens’ latest takes a left turn from their usual fables of heedless ambition to essay a listless 1960s folk singer, “boomeranging between bad memories and botched opportunities”, write J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters.

J M Tyree, Ben Walters
Friday 24 January 2014

Reviews and recommendations
Find the fun: editing documentaries the Mary Poppins way

When he struggles to bring discipline and rules to his documentaries’ anarchic found moments, Robert Greene turns to Mary Poppins for help.

Robert Greene
Wednesday 22 January 2014

Unfiction
From the Magazine

Film of the week: The Wolf of Wall Street

DiCaprio and Scorsese illustrate the lubricious art of blowing stock-market bubbles. This picaresque farce is a riot, says Nick Pinkerton.

Nick Pinkerton
Friday 17 January 2014

Reviews and recommendations
Alien abductions: 12 Years a Slave and the past as science fiction

Steve McQueen’s correctional slavery drama is only the most astringently literal of a handful of post-1960s films that show us the dystopian strangeness of true history, says Ashley Clark.

Ashley Clark
Wednesday 15 January 2014

Features
Vacuous, or voluptuous visions?

Patriarchal disdain for unboxed female sexuality is distilled in George Cukor’s 1954 advertising-girl comedy It Should Happen to You – and underscored by our ongoing neglect of both the film and its director, says Brad Stevens.

Brad Stevens
Tuesday 14 January 2014

Bradlands
Gateway from the east: Dubai 2013

Exiled Iranians and Singaporeans, determined Chinese villagers and nuclear-evacuee Japanese horses made for four admirable documentaries at the Middle Eastern festival’s tenth edition, reports Tony Rayns.

Tony Rayns
Tuesday 14 January 2014

Festivals
Best of British at the London International Animation Festival 2013

The rich visions at this domestic showcase tantalise with what might be possible with healthier funding for our animators, says Jez Stewart.

Jez Stewart
Tuesday 14 January 2014

Festivals
From the Magazine

Film of the week: 12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen’s best film yet deploys his signature style of painterly compositions and dexterous long takes to impress unflinchingly painful truths, says Calum Marsh.

Calum Marsh
Friday 10 January 2014

Reviews and recommendations