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Film of the week: Norte, the End of History
Filipino arthouse hero Lav Diaz shoots for Balzacian social breadth and Dostoevskyian moral depth with this sprawling crime-and-punishment fable, his first to gain UK release. If only he would stretch himself, says Adrian Martin.
Thursday 17 July 2014 -
From the Magazine
Twelve years go by in Richard Linklater’s ‘indie epic’, a simple, magical study of the subtle turns of life, says Ashley Clark.
Friday 11 July 2014 -
Matthew Barney’s latest magnum blow-out is a six-hour filmed opera of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings: “phantasmagorical, recondite… abject, magical and often gorgeous,” reports the jelly-hearted Charlie Fox.
Thursday 10 July 2014 -
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Film of the week: Cycling with Molière
Ginette Vincendeau on a smart, spry meta-adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope, set on France’s media-colonised Île de Ré.
Friday 4 July 2014 -
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Film of the week: Cold in July
…and dark in Texas: Violet Lucca hails an 80s-set horror-thriller with ideas from the increasingly impressive team of Jim Mickle and co-screenwriter Nick Damici.
Friday 27 June 2014 -
Alex Dudok de Wit welcomes the kooky king of internet anime.
Sunday 22 June 2014 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Camille Claudel 1915
Bruno Dumont and Juliette Binoche follow their subject into Montdevergues asylum – with typically astringent results, says Graham Fuller.
Friday 20 June 2014 -
From the Magazine
Amma Asante’s portrait of the eighteenth-century mixed-race noblewoman Dido Belle reconstructs the costume drama on the twin pillars of love and justice, says Sophie Mayer.
Thursday 12 June 2014 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Fruitvale Station
Ashley Clark admires writer-director Ryan Coogler’s calmy compassionate reconstruction of a day in the life and death of Oscar Grant, a black urban everyman and victim of police racism.
Friday 6 June 2014 -
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Film of the week: Venus in Fur
Mr and Mrs Polanski make carnival work of von Sacher-Masoch’s bag of kink, finds Roger Clarke.
Friday 30 May 2014
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