Sight & Sound articles

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  Glasgow 2010: back to the future

  John Beagles hears voices from the past around every darkened corner at the Glasgow International Art Festival.

  John Beagles
  Friday 7 May 2010

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  Views from the edge: IndieLisboa 2010

  Kieron Corless revisits Chantal Akerman’s hypnotic Communist portmortem D’Est at this invigorating Portuguese festival.

  Kieron Corless
  Wednesday 5 May 2010

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  Rotterdam 2010: Smoke gets in your eyes

  James Benning’s slow-gaze industrial landscape documentary Ruhr provides sights for Nick James’ sore eyes at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

  Nick James
  Tuesday 9 February 2010

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  Berlinale 2010: We have the stars

  Is dreaming of a festival without instant ratings asking for the moon?

  Nick James
  Monday 1 February 2010

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  Bedlam in brief: Encounters Short Film Festival 2009

  Nick Bradshaw picks a hatful of the best movies at Bristol’s Encounters Short Film Festival.

  Nick Bradshaw
  Wednesday 13 January 2010

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  Eastern dusk: Aurora 2010

  Norwich’s Aurora festival has been at the forefront of recent artists’ moving-image appreciation in the UK. George Clark reports from its sudden wake.

  George Clark
  Friday 11 December 2009

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  Every doc for itself: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009

  As documentary watchers and makers came together to survey the state of the art – and get into a fight about it – Nick Bradshaw picks through the sloganeering, then went back to the screen for enlightenment.

  Nick Bradshaw
  Tuesday 1 December 2009

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  Viennale 2009: the whirls of time

  Isabel Stevens revels in the Viennale’s retrospectives, from Buster Keaton and Lino Brocka to Timothy Carey’s fevered The World’s Greatest Sinner, a film too crazy even for Frank Zappa.

  Isabel Stevens
  Thursday 19 November 2009

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  LFF 2009: ‘Underground’, overground

  This year’s London Film Festival brought archive films up onto the streets, and the Tube back onto the screen. We caught two of the festival’s archive showcases.

  Nick Bradshaw, James Bell
  Friday 6 November 2009

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  Tropical rocket: Abandon Normal Devices 2009

  Tony Rayns sees Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Primitive’ installation at the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Media and Digital Culture in Liverpool.

  Tony Rayns
  Wednesday 30 September 2009

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