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Super Nature: Ed Sayers’ Super 8 documentary is a beautiful ode to nature’s restorative power
Threading together striking Super 8 footage shot by contributors from 25 countries, Ed Sayers’ textured documentary explores our connection with nature through the alchemy of capturing it on celluloid.
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Late Fame: Kent Jones’s playful drama pokes gentle fun at New York literary circles old and new
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I Want Your Sex: Gregg Araki’s wild art-world satire unspools as an enjoyable kinky-sex detective yarn
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Nowhere to Lay My Eyes: Hong Sang-soo’s meditative family drama is familiar in all the right ways
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“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting
Thirty years after its release, Trainspotting is returning to cinemas. In our February 1996 issue, Geoffrey Macnab spoke to director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald about drugs, class and the state of British cinema.
By Geoffrey Macnab
Of monsters and men: Peter Wollen on Jurassic Park
By Peter Wollen
Darkest hour: the first ever film of a solar eclipse
By Bryony Dixon
“It earns every hair it stiffens”: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others
By Nick James
“He was a giant for work”: Michal Leszczylowski, editor of The Sacrifice, on Andrei Tarkovsky
By Michal Leszczylowski
Gods and monsters: Spirited Away reviewed in 2003
By Andrew Osmond
The misfits of Zwigoff: a visit to the set of Ghost World
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