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Fantastic Machine: a frustrating whistlestop tour of humankind’s relationship with the camera
Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s ambitious documentary spans the birth of camera obscura to the invention of TikTok using a cursory approach that allows for little insight.
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Last Summer: Catherine Breillat’s most heartbreaking film to date
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Sometimes I Think About Dying: downbeat workplace indie shows another side to Daisy Ridley
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Elaine May: laughing matters
By Carrie Rickey
“Ford is a director with whom things are either right or wrong”: Lindsay Anderson’s review of The Searchers
By Lindsay Anderson
All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
By Roger Luckhurst
The Book of Clarence: a messy, genre-blending Biblical epic
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Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
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