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Different strengths: women to the fore (and aft) at London 2015
Women were in the spotlight at this year’s London Film Festival, from Suffragette’s opening-gala platform to the Geena Davis Institute’s campaign on gender representation. But did the emphasis on symbols overshadow subjects and sensibilities, asks Simran Hans?
Friday 30 October 2015 -
Welcome to the brain wash: London 2015 ‘Cult’ round-up
Anton Bitel considers 13 outré efforts at the 59th London Film Festival.
Thursday 22 October 2015 -
Toons by women at Encounters 2015
Female animators weren’t on the wane at this year’s Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival. Alex Dudok de Wit picks a handful of the standouts.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 -
Remember life: the best international live-action shorts at Encounters 2015
Punk springs eternal as America’s Jennifer Reeder won her second consecutive Grand Prix for Blood Below the Skin, but otherwise the spirit of mittel-European social realism stood tall at Bristol’s short film festival, reports Tim Hayes.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 -
Strange crannies of the world: the best of British live action at Encounters 2015
From Iceland to Bangladesh to west London, public and private spheres were played off one another in this year’s native highlights at the Bristol short film showcase, reports Dylan Cave.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 -
Boys and men: the best of British animation at Encounters 2015
Jez Stewart on the atavistic native visions at Bristol this year, from Richard Williams’ hand-drawn rendition of ancient-Greek warfare to an EDL dad, a neanderthal id, a sad young wool-mation cannibal and an anachronistic woolly mammoth.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 -
Make it big: Louis Theroux, Simon Chinn and My Scientology Movie
TV or cinema? When Britain’s slyest small-screen inquisitor teams up with the two-time Oscar-winning producer of crossover documentary features, which way does the result lean, wonders Edward Lawrenson?
Saturday 17 October 2015 -
London 2015: Shorts, centre-stage
How high are the sundry highlights nominated for the London Film Festival’s new Short Film Award? Alex Dudok de Wit took a look.
Thursday 15 October 2015 -
What makes a good casting director? Laura Rosenthal and the indefinable art
After a London Film Festival audience with the woman who helps Todd Haynes, Kelly Reichardt and Paolo Sorrentino pick their actors, Thirza Wakefield reflects on the lack of critical discourse around this elusive profession.
Wednesday 14 October 2015 -
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.
Tuesday 13 October 2015
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