Sight & Sound articles

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  Berlinale 2013: The fairer subjects

  Geoff Andrew sifts three engaging films about women of a certain age from the chaff of Berlin’s first week.

  Geoff Andrew
  11 February 2013

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  Video: Five finds at the Rotterdam International Film Festival

  Five film watchers with two hats apiece go gold-panning at the mouth of the Rhine.

  Kevin B. Lee
  8 February 2013

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  Berlinale 2013: The Grandmaster

  Wong Kar-wai’s first film in six years is a kung fu melodrama that spans the decades – and focusses on icicles falling, one at a time, says Nick James.

  Nick James
  7 February 2013

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  From the Magazine

  A collective embrace: Morelia Film Festival 2012

  It’s trimmed back the luxury – a bit – but this Mexican fest retains its uniquely pleasing balance of the social and the cinephile, writes Nick James.

  Nick James
  29 January 2013

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  Where the girls are: female filmmakers at the 10th London Short Film Festival

  Boys got to make nearly all the big films in 2012 – yet further down the film chain women directors are flourishing. Ghetto or headway, asks Anna Coatman?

  Anna Coatman
  23 January 2013

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  Encounters 2012: to Mars and back

  With a new calendar slot and head programmer, the UK’s biggest short-film festival bulged with retro and cutting-edge sci-fi, 3D Soviet dinosaurs, mock-Edwardian Londoners, tragi-comic stickmen and thousands of flies.

  Nick Bradshaw , Dylan Cave , Jez Stewart
  31 December 2012

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  New Nigerian cinema and beyond: Film Africa 2012

  Ashley Clark roams the continent’s latest comedies, dramas and documentaries in this burgeoning London showcase.

  Ashley Clark
  6 December 2012

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  Stop motion lives!

  Jez Stewart risks the sneers of Guardian blog baiters to hail half a dozen instances of wholesome low-rent excellence at the Bradford Animation Festival.

  Jez Stewart
  29 November 2012

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  Seeing double: the London Korean Film Festival 2012

  Pairs of new royal costume dramas, ensemble heist movies, derivative thrillers and downbeat animations marked this year’s Korean crop, found Anton Bitel.

  Anton Bitel
  29 November 2012

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  Keep it local: the 2012 FrightFest Hallowe’en All-nighter

  Good old suburban-teen angst and small-town abductions won the night against supermarket sharks, alternate-universe zombies and motel torture, recalls FrightFest survivor Anton Bitel.

  Anton Bitel
  15 November 2012

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