Sight & Sound articles

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  Beyond extreme? The London Korean Film Festival 2011

  Anton Bitel finds genres straight and tangled in this year’s London showcase of new Korean cinema.

  Anton Bitel
  Tuesday 22 November 2011

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  FrightFest Hallowe’en 2011: tricks but not enough treats

  Emerging from the horror specialists’ annual all-night marathon, Anton Bitel wishes he’d only survived til 5am.

  Anton Bitel
  Tuesday 15 November 2011

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  Morelia 2011: Shelter from the sensation

  Mark Cousins sees a running tussle between baroque culture and Bressonian art at Mexico’s foremost showcase of homegrown film.

  Mark Cousins
  Monday 14 November 2011

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  LFF 2011: The new new Argentine cinema

  Mar Diestro-Dópido on six new films that suggest the rise of a new generation of Argentine filmmakers forging their own identity.

  Mar Diestro-Dópido
  Wednesday 2 November 2011

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  LFF 2011: Five (not) by Ben Rivers

  The British artist filmmaker talks Kieron Corless through his London Film Festival highlights.

  Kieron Corless
  Wednesday 26 October 2011

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  London 2011: toons for all

  Dylan Cave and Nick Bradshaw survey the festival’s short animations for kids and adults.

  Dylan Cave, Nick Bradshaw
  Tuesday 18 October 2011

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  On the road to Telluride

  Nick James on bringing home Sight & Sound’s ‘Special Medallion’ from the Telluride Film Festival, “given to a hero of cinema that preserves, honors and presents great movies”.

  Nick James
  Saturday 17 September 2011

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  FrightFest 2011: Women and horror

  Mark Pilkington on The Woman, and two female-directed discoveries that bring “warmth and rounded characterisation to a genre that so often lacks it”.

  Mark Pilkington
  Thursday 1 September 2011

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  Restoration heaven: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2011

  Jonathan Rosenbaum goes reevaluating the films of Soviet dramatist Boris Barnet, Howard Hawks and Louis Feuillade’s muse Musidora at Bolgona’s ‘festival of rediscoveries’.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum
  Thursday 7 July 2011

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  Midnight Sun 2011: Let there be light

  Nick James investigates a wonderful blend of cinema and mild carousing with luminaries including Aki Kaurismäki, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Atom Egoyan and cinematographer Michael Chapman.

  Nick James
  Thursday 7 July 2011

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