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In a new edition of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, we delve into our archives to revisit the radical cinema of Chantal Akerman, whose film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, was voted Greatest of All Time in 2022.
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“I want to make films about my community”: Akinola Davies Jr
Fresh on the heels of his Bafta win for Outstanding Debut by a British writer-director, filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr spoke to ‘Beyond Nollywood’ curator Nadia Denton about the zeitgeist, creating his own mythologies, and what comes next.
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Death becomes Visconti
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Familiar Touch: a lovingly told coming-of-old-age film
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Death becomes Visconti
Notorious for their opulence and melodramatic flair, the later works of Luchino Visconti astound us with the inexplicable, argued Michael Wood in this May 2003 feature.
By Michael Wood
A close encounter with Steven Spielberg
By Richard Combs
A “lethally perfumed neo-noir”: David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.
By Graham Fuller
Blonde ambition: Legally Blonde reviewed in 2001
By Kay Dickinson
Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver
By Colin L. Westerbeck Jr.
Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976
By Penelope Houston
“A film of marvels if not quite a marvellous film”: Shrek reviewed in 2001
By Kim Newman
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