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‘Not really horror’ highlights: the best of FrightFest 2016
Anton Bitel highlights two handfuls of genre boundary-busters at this year’s FrightFest.
Anton Bitel
Thursday 18 August 2016
Ghost pictures: five phantom finds at FID Marseille 2016
Past and present alike haunted these five wilfully unmouldable finds at France’s festival of anti-formulaic anything-goes, writes Michael Pattison.
Michael Pattison
Thursday 21 July 2016
Alissa Simon picks her top dozen films to write home about from the leading showcase of central and eastern European cinema.
Alissa Simon
Thursday 21 July 2016
Regrouping, again: Lizzie Borden’s “diabolical hour” comes around
Forty years after Lizzie Borden put away her radically feminist, reflexive portrait of four artists in a women’s group, the film has more to say to us than ever, says Sophie Mayer.
So Mayer
Wednesday 20 July 2016
A festival in the crowd: some highlights of Edinburgh 2016
Two top fiction scoops from Venice (The Fits) and Rotterdam (Suntan), some passably intriguing documentaries and a handful of offbeat event-films and happenings were the best of a festival still searching for its new niche, says Nick James.
Nick James
Wednesday 20 July 2016
Screen or scream? Fight or flight? Penny Woolcock and Ross McElwee on the perils of festivals
As they prepare for work-in-progress screenings at the Otherfield Film Festival on a farm in Suffolk, filmmakers Penny Woolcock and Ross McElwee remember the kinds of festival experience they’d like to get away from.
Penny Woolcock, Ross McElwee
Friday 8 July 2016
Crossing a line? Character-filmmaker collusions at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016
From John Berger’s friends in Quincy to Mark Duggan’s friends in London, a hip hop wannabe in Iran to an animal-rights crusader in America, many of this year’s Doc/Fest characters and filmmakers seemed more or less hand in glove, for better or worse, reports Ben Nicholson.
Ben Nicholson
Friday 8 July 2016
Deeper, longer, realer: VR at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016
There was some serious second-wave virtual-reality ambition on show this year at Doc/Fest’s ever-burgeoning Alternate Realities showcase, reports Marisol Grandon – if you could get a headset to find out.
Marisol Grandon
Friday 8 July 2016
Look back in wonder: FLARE 2016 critics’ roundtable
On its thirtieth anniversary, the erstwhile London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival had plenty to reflect on, from biopics and revionist histories and rereleases to the new places queer cinema is going. Claire Kurylowski, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters share notes in this podcast.
Claire Kurylowski, So Mayer, Ben Walters
Monday 20 June 2016
Warland of hypnosis and knowledge: Ukraine in the mirror
“Divided in mind” as well as in identity, Ukrainians get to see themselves on screen at their DocuDays film festival, which has valiantly nurtured a media-savvy audience over the past 14 years. This year, of course, provided plenty to open eyes and minds, reports Eero Tammi.
Eero Tammi
Monday 20 June 2016
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