Sight & Sound articles

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  The big-top blowout – Guy Maddin at the IMAX, London 2015

  The mad magpie of Canadian cinema went down the rabbit hole at London’s biggest screen with The Forbidden Room, a pulsating extravaganza of mock movie reclamation. Virginie Selavy reports on our LFF Experimenta gala, and his ensuing LFF Connects talk.

  Virginie Sélavy
  Tuesday 13 October 2015

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  Three of the best at Camden 2015

  Nick Pinkerton on three motley ethnographic missives – featuring rugby-playing Kiwi cowhands, roisterous Innuit YouTubers and public servants gone to seed in the Democratic Republic of Congo – at Maine’s festival safe harbour for cinematic documentaries.

  Nick Pinkerton
  Monday 12 October 2015

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  Radical Bristol 2015: back to the cinema of the future?

  Four decades after Bristol hosted its inaugural festival of radical independent cinema – is it time for a second try, asks Tim Hayes?

  Tim Hayes
  Wednesday 7 October 2015

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  FrightFest 2015: Critics’ roundtable post-mortem

  From crazy ladies and final girls to fables of confinement and madness and a resurgence of British grand guignol, this year’s London horror-film showcase had plenty to chew over – as Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy demonstrate.

  Anton Bitel, Kim Newman, Virginie Sélavy
  Wednesday 30 September 2015

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  Missing believed garbled: Hitchcock’s first steps in film

  Hitchcock scholars’ hopes were dashed at 2015’s British Silent Film Festival by the hand of historico-cinematic sabotage, reports Henry K. Miller.

  Henry K Miller
  Thursday 24 September 2015

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  FrightFest 2014 critics’ roundtable post-mortem

  Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy discuss the highs and lows of FrightFest 2014, from Coherence to Altergeist and The Babadook.

  Anton Bitel, Kim Newman, Virginie Sélavy
  Thursday 27 August 2015

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  The best of FrightFest 2015

  From a primeval Steve Oram to Miike Takashi’s metacinematic kabuki adaptation and a docu-nightmare about sleep paralysis from the director of Room 237, this year’s horror fiesta is more stacked than ever. Anton Bitel previews nine of the best.

  Anton Bitel
  Wednesday 26 August 2015

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  New horizons: Edinburgh 2015

  A wrongfooting portrait of Bill Drummond’s post-KLF art life was the first of several likeable discoveries in what should have been the midweek lull of the Edinburgh Film Festival, reports Nick James.

  Nick James
  Monday 6 July 2015

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  Keeping our end up? Edinburgh 2015’s Best of British

  For all the Edinburgh Film Festival’s serial changes of leadership, this year’s native showcase yet again struggled to find enough titles above the humdrum. Is this as good as it gets, asks Tim Hayes?

  Tim Hayes
  Monday 6 July 2015

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  The East End of the world as we know it?

  Anton Bitel previews ten disaster films at the 2015 East End Film Festival.

  Anton Bitel
  Thursday 2 July 2015

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