Sight & Sound articles

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  Nonfiction haven: Camden, Maine’s festival on the rise

  A burgeoning US hub for the cinematic documentary scene, New England’s Camden International Film Festival encompasses multitudes – including, this year, a standout six-minute archival portrait of municipal farce and hubris. Ashley Clark reports.

  Ashley Clark
  Monday 31 October 2016

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  New narratives: Spanish stories at London Film Festival 2016

  Five surprising films by Spanish and Latin American directors at this year’s LFF explored the consolations and tricks offered by storytelling.

  Mar Diestro-Dópido
  Saturday 22 October 2016

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  London Film Festival 2016: my five picks (and five hopes) – Kieron Corless

  What to watch at this year’s LFF? Kieron Corless salutes Eugène Green’s modern Nativity with a monstrous Mathieu Amalric, and four triumphantly imaginative explorations of history from Chile, Austria, Thailand and the US.

  Kieron Corless
  Thursday 6 October 2016

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  London Film Festival 2016: my five picks (and five hopes) – Nick James

  What to watch at this year’s LFF? Nick James commends Jim Jarmusch’s most soulful yet, a serious shocker from Paul Verhoeven and Amat Escalante’s blindsiding The Untamed.

  Nick James
  Tuesday 4 October 2016

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  London Film Festival 2016: my five picks (and five hopes) – Isabel Stevens

  What to watch at this year’s LFF? In the first of our editor’s personal selections, Isabel Stevens tips her hat to four hits from Cannes, and anticipates new movies from Kelly Reichardt and Matías Piñeiro alongside the revival of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust.

  Isabel Stevens
  Friday 30 September 2016

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  Encounters 2016 preview: Mutant strains lurk just beneath the skin

  If you look to short films for a fresher way of seeing, these seven highlights of Bristol’s Encounters festival should sluice your eyes, reckons Tim Hayes.

  Tim Hayes
  Wednesday 21 September 2016

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  Arab cinema after the Arab Spring

  The region’s revolutions may have largely curdled, but its filmmakers persist in opening up, programmer Rasha Salti tells Ben Nicholson.

  Ben Nicholson
  Wednesday 14 September 2016

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  From the Magazine

  Preview: the 2016 BFI London Film Festival

  With a focus on black talent and an S&S Gala presenting the film of 2016, this autumn’s festival is set to be one of the most exciting in years, says Nick James.

  Nick James
  Friday 2 September 2016

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  Podcast: FrightFest 2016 critics’ roundtable post-mortem

  Sixtysomething movies later, Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy emerge to dissect the best and worst, darkest and weirdest of this year’s horror scene.

  Anton Bitel, Kim Newman, Virginie Sélavy
  Thursday 1 September 2016

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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

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