Sight & Sound articles

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  Tribeca 2014: basketball and the city

  Nick James reports on the best of Manhattan’s budding movie showcase, starring the New York Knicks, Nas, Raf Simons, gorillas, New Orleans millennials, listless Mexican drifters and the Edward Snowdens of the 1970s.

  Nick James
  Wednesday 23 April 2014

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  DIY punk: Flatpack 2014

  Broadening the playing field (and resisting the bland): Simran Hans reports on Birmingham’s film festival of anything and everything.

  Simran Hans
  Tuesday 15 April 2014

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  Ugly ducklings? Fluxus docs at True/False 2014

  Nick Pinkerton takes stock of the new documentaries at US cinema’s foremost neither/nor zone.

  Nick Pinkerton
  Saturday 22 March 2014

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  The art of decolonising: postcolonial cinema at AV Festival 2014

  Michael Pattison encounters a range of attitudes to the sins of the past underlying a melee of artistic approaches.

  Michael Pattison
  Wednesday 19 March 2014

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  Dimensions of dialogue: Black Movie 2014

  Conversations between filmmakers, festivals and nations characterised Geneva’s adventurously programmed festival of the best of developing-world cinema, reports Andrew Simpson.

  Andrew Simpson
  Thursday 27 February 2014

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  Cinema, art of light and shadow: a review of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting Styles 1915-1950

  From Japan to Germany and America, ideas in movie lighting have long travelled on the wind. Daniel Fairfax reports on a Berlin/New York retrospective that follows their course.

  Daniel Fairfax
  Wednesday 26 February 2014

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  Gallic stars go Gallois: Borderlines 2014 preview

  Borderlines Film Festival patron Francine Stock on bringing her French screen heroes to the Welsh Borders.

  Francine Stock
  Monday 24 February 2014

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  In defence of Latin languors: The Third Side of the River, History of Fear, Beach of the Future and Aloft

  Could Berlin’s quartet of Latin American competition entries be more red-blooded? Demetrios Matheou pleads for restraint.

  Demetrios Matheou
  Friday 14 February 2014

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  Bad seeds and worse: 20,000 Days on Earth, Free Range and The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq

  From Nick Cave to Michel Houellebecq, creatives majestic and wretched were the subjects of a trio of notable movies at the 2014 Berlinale, reports Carmen Gray.

  Carmen Gray
  Friday 14 February 2014

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  Boyhood and downhill: Berlinale 2014 roundup

  Richard Linklater’s 12-year study of growing up is one of the few movies in this year’s festival to hit its target, says Geoff Andrew.

  Geoff Andrew
  Thursday 13 February 2014

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