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Light my fire: The Hour of the Furnaces

As Sight & Sound counts down to the September issue’s once-a-decade poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, French critic Nicole Brenez makes the case for one of the key revolutionary activist films of the 1960s, The Hour of the Furnaces.

Remain in light: Mulholland Dr. and the cosmogony of David Lynch

B. Kite considers David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. in the light of the Vedanta-inspired spiritual philosophy that underpins all the director’s work.

History in the making: Black Gold and the Jasmine revolution

Ali Jaafar on the set of a fictional epic about a 1930s Arab uprising, filming in revolutionary Tunisia.

Jean Vigo: Artist of the floating world

The sole full-length feature made by Jean Vigo, L’Atalante was a bridge between the surrealism of 1920s French cinema and the poetic realism of the 1930s. Graham Fuller makes the case for its inclusion in S&S’s forthcoming ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll.

Divining spirits: Chick Strand

Vera Brunner-Sung on the mind-bending ethnographic forays of the late experimental master.

Down the Bunka: Japanese underground cinema of the 1960s

Jasper Sharp dives down the rabbit hole with the experimental Theatre Scorpio.

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