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Film of the week: Gone Girl

David Fincher and screenwriter Gillian Flynn riddle the mysteries of marriage in an entertainingly perverse adaptation of the latter’s blockbuster novel, says Nick James.

Nick James
Tuesday 30 September 2014

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Film of the week: Ida

Pawel Pawlikowski condenses European (and cinematic) history into a “sad, small”, ineffably potent road movie of the soul, writes Catherine Wheatley.

Catherine Wheatley
Thursday 25 September 2014

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Archives online: British Pathé’s Death Jump – Eiffel Tower (1912)

In the first of a series sampling the treasures of online film archives, Thirza Wakefield ponders capes, death masks and the eerie intimacy of the camera in a four-minute memento mori.

Thirza Wakefield
Sunday 21 September 2014

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Film of the week: 20,000 Days on Earth

Nick Cave beckons you into the caverns of his mind, writes Trevor Johnston.

Trevor Johnston
Thursday 18 September 2014

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Toon of the month: Marcel, the King of Tervuren

Ruling the roost, one day at a time: Chris Robinson hails a Belgian short animation about a cockerel’s mysteries of persistence.

Chris Robinson
Monday 15 September 2014

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Film of the week: Pride

Welsh miners and London queers meet under the cosh of discrimination in this plucky (and timely) Ealing-esque look back to the 1984-85 miners’ strike, says Ben Walters.

Ben Walters
Friday 12 September 2014

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BFI London Film Festival 2014: 30 recommendations

Our hand-picked selection of highlights in this year’s festival.

Sight & Sound Editors
Thursday 11 September 2014

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Film of the week: Finding Fela

Alex Gibney revisits the body and many faces of Fela Kuti, Afrobeat revolutionary extraordinaire. By Sam Davies.

Sam Davies
Friday 5 September 2014

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Film of the week: Night Moves

Adam Nayman on Kelly Reichardt’s latest tale of alienation and rue, a paranoid tragedy of eco-terrorism.

Adam Nayman
Thursday 28 August 2014

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Top ten nonfiction lessons – for those who take the time…

Instead of voting in our Documentary Poll, the Austrian Film Museum’s director Alexander Horwath sent us this proposal for a screening programme…

Alexander Horwath
Wednesday 27 August 2014

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