Sight & Sound articles

Festivals

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  Seeing double: the London Korean Film Festival 2012

  Pairs of new royal costume dramas, ensemble heist movies, derivative thrillers and downbeat animations marked this year’s Korean crop, found Anton Bitel.

  Anton Bitel
  Thursday 29 November 2012

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  Keep it local: the 2012 FrightFest Hallowe’en All-nighter

  Good old suburban-teen angst and small-town abductions won the night against supermarket sharks, alternate-universe zombies and motel torture, recalls FrightFest survivor Anton Bitel.

  Anton Bitel
  Thursday 15 November 2012

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  LFF blog: Further steps – two shorts turned to features

  This year’s LFF showcased two different northern features that blossomed from 2007-vintage short films. Dylan Cave talked double takes with their makers.

  Dylan Cave
  Monday 29 October 2012

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  LFF blog: Blow hard – Slavoj Žižek, sans handkerchief

  The philosopher-contrarian brought his stage shtick to the London Film Festival. Henry K. Miller packed his reality-revealing sunglasses but forgot the tissues.

  Henry K Miller
  Thursday 25 October 2012

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  London 2012: African round-up

  Three new daring – or debate-worthy – dramas from sub-Saharan Africa loom large on Basia Lewandowska Cummings’ festival card.

  Basia Lewandowska Cummings
  Wednesday 24 October 2012

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  LFF 2012: Wolves vs giraffes! More animation for kids

  Japanese cross-breed fable Wolf Children and French transcontinental odyssey Zarafa made a curious festival double-bill for Sophie Mayer.

  Sophie Mayer
  Tuesday 23 October 2012

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  LFF blog: Animation round-up

  Jez Stewart sees 14 animation companies take on Graham Chapman’s audio memoirs – and finds a trio of marvels in the International Animation Panorama.

  Jez Stewart
  Tuesday 23 October 2012

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  LFF 2012 blog: ‘Cult’ round-up

  Nick Hasted weighs up this year’s outré offerings.

  Nick Hasted
  Monday 22 October 2012

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  LFF blog: Civil wrongs

  Five new American documentaries hold up a mirror to the country’s recent marked failures of justice, finds Ashley Clark.

  Ashley Clark
  Friday 19 October 2012

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  LFF blog: the week-one whirligig

  Our editor hangs up his party boots just long enough to tally his diary at the festival’s halfway mark.

  Nick James
  Wednesday 17 October 2012

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