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Toons by women at Encounters 2015
Female animators weren’t on the wane at this year’s Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival. Alex Dudok de Wit picks a handful of the standouts.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 -
Remember life: the best international live-action shorts at Encounters 2015
Punk springs eternal as America’s Jennifer Reeder won her second consecutive Grand Prix for Blood Below the Skin, but otherwise the spirit of mittel-European social realism stood tall at Bristol’s short film festival, reports Tim Hayes.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 -
Make it big: Louis Theroux, Simon Chinn and My Scientology Movie
TV or cinema? When Britain’s slyest small-screen inquisitor teams up with the two-time Oscar-winning producer of crossover documentary features, which way does the result lean, wonders Edward Lawrenson?
Saturday 17 October 2015 -
London 2015: Shorts, centre-stage
How high are the sundry highlights nominated for the London Film Festival’s new Short Film Award? Alex Dudok de Wit took a look.
Thursday 15 October 2015 -
What makes a good casting director? Laura Rosenthal and the indefinable art
After a London Film Festival audience with the woman who helps Todd Haynes, Kelly Reichardt and Paolo Sorrentino pick their actors, Thirza Wakefield reflects on the lack of critical discourse around this elusive profession.
Wednesday 14 October 2015 -
The big-top blowout – Guy Maddin at the IMAX, London 2015
The mad magpie of Canadian cinema went down the rabbit hole at London’s biggest screen with The Forbidden Room, a pulsating extravaganza of mock movie reclamation. Virginie Selavy reports on our LFF Experimenta gala, and his ensuing LFF Connects talk.
Tuesday 13 October 2015 -
Three of the best at Camden 2015
Nick Pinkerton on three motley ethnographic missives – featuring rugby-playing Kiwi cowhands, roisterous Innuit YouTubers and public servants gone to seed in the Democratic Republic of Congo – at Maine’s festival safe harbour for cinematic documentaries.
Monday 12 October 2015 -
Radical Bristol 2015: back to the cinema of the future?
Four decades after Bristol hosted its inaugural festival of radical independent cinema – is it time for a second try, asks Tim Hayes?
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
FrightFest 2015: Critics’ roundtable post-mortem
From crazy ladies and final girls to fables of confinement and madness and a resurgence of British grand guignol, this year’s London horror-film showcase had plenty to chew over – as Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy demonstrate.
Wednesday 30 September 2015 -
Missing believed garbled: Hitchcock’s first steps in film
Hitchcock scholars’ hopes were dashed at 2015’s British Silent Film Festival by the hand of historico-cinematic sabotage, reports Henry K. Miller.
Thursday 24 September 2015
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