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Ride a white swan: on location with Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair’s Swandown

Andrew Kötting’s new film Swandown is the result of a bizarre pedalo trip he took with the writer Iain Sinclair. Nick James joins them.

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012: in with the old

Geoff Andrew roams from Raoul Walsh’s grand west and Sergio Leone’s expanded gangster epic to the less-fêted works of Jean Grémillon at Bologna’s festival of recovery and discovery.

Out of this world: Secret Cinema takes flight

Owen Van Spall visits the Secret Cinema organisation’s biggest blockbuster yet.

Lost and found: A New Leaf

Elaine May’s 1971 black comedy may have been butchered by the studio, but the end result is still glorious, writes Ryan Gilbey.

Romanian realism and its discontents: the Transilvania International Film Festival 2012

Excellent features from Adrian Sitaru and Radu Jude, and a standout portrait of Nicolae Ceausescu, trumped efforts to overhaul the house style at this fountainhead of the Romanian New Wave.

Goin’ south: IndieLisboa 2012

This year’s IndieLisboa took place under the cloud of absolute public-funding cuts to Portuguese cinema. Álvaro Arroba reports from the home of the world’s perennial filmmaking vanguard.

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