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  London 2013: Spanish cinema – beyond crisis?

  Three new movies by London Film Festival debutantes exemplify the new DIY ethos of Spain’s embattled film sector, reports Mar Diestro-Dópido.

  Mar Diestro-Dópido
  Thursday 17 October 2013

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  Encounters 2013: Swiss Encounters

  Harriet Warman finds notes of electro-psychedelic-ambient Dadaism, abstract football fandom, perilous femininity and existential hopelessness in a Swiss buffet at this year’s Bristol short-film expo.

  Harriet Warman
  Thursday 3 October 2013

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  Encounters 2013: Best of British (live action)

  Dylan Cave on a septet of standouts at this year’s Bristol short-film festival, featuring old people, young people, a house and a stick.

  Dylan Cave
  Wednesday 2 October 2013

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  Border tensions: Berwick 2013

  This year’s Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival took aim at the boundaries between films and installation art, as well as between Berwick and its North Sea neighbours, reports Michael Pattison.

  Michael Pattison
  Tuesday 1 October 2013

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  FrightFest 2013: epic critics’ roundtable post-mortem

  Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy emerge from the UK’s leading horror film festival with 41 films in the bag.

  Anton Bitel, Kim Newman, Virginie Sélavy
  Thursday 26 September 2013

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  BFI London Film Festival 2013: 
30 recommendations

  With vampires and folkies, stories from Mexico, the Philippines and Yorkshire, the BFI LFF 2013 is as multifarious as ever. Here are our favourite films so far.

  Sight & Sound Editors
  Friday 13 September 2013

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  Fantasia 2013: Montreal’s monster convocation

  From Vietnamese martial arts / sex melodrama / musicals to Richard Stanley’s forays around Cathar country, mumblegore entryists and the exploits of horror’s knight-errant Andrzej Zulawski, fantasy cinema once again consumed Canada’s second city this summer, reports Nick Pinkerton.

  Nick Pinkerton
  Thursday 12 September 2013

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  Venice 2013: Come in, come out of the sun

  More waterlogged poise from Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-Liang, castration fun from Kim Ki-Duk and winning portraits of directors Sam Fuller, James Benning and Richard Linklater stood out on a slow Lido, reports Nick James.

  Nick James
  Thursday 12 September 2013

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  Truth, lies and admin: At Berkeley, The Unknown Known and The Armstrong Lie

  The University of Berkeley hosts Fred Wiseman’s entreaty for open communication – while Errol Morris and Alex Gibney hit the big American stone walls of Donald Rumsfeld and Lance Armstrong, finds Ashley Clark.

  Ashley Clark
  Monday 9 September 2013

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  Venice 2013: week one high-water marks

  Nick James on grim Greek tragedy Miss Violence, Tokyo prostitution fable The Shape of Night and Kelly Reichardt’s Night Movies at a Biennale otherwise overshadowed by its own past glories.

  Nick James
  Tuesday 3 September 2013

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