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All about my mother: Annouchka de Andrade on Sarah Maldoror
Annouchka de Andrade is curator of the BFI Southbank season ‘A Poet with a Camera: The Cinema of Sarah Maldoror’. She is also Maldoror’s daughter, and since her mother’s death has been working to restore her filmography. She told Rachel Pronger about the struggle to restore Sambizanga, as well as sharing memories of her mother.
By Annouchka de Andrade
The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014
By Nick James
Dancing at the revolution: the cinema of Sarah Maldoror
By Rachel Pronger
NAZA: Essential documentary from the co-directors of No Other Land lays bare the machinery of killing in Gaza
By Nicolas Rapold
Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh deploys his trademark irreverence in a funny-sad 1970s spy caper
By Jessica Kiang
Bad Apples: Saoirse Ronan is this black comedy’s secret weapon
By Kate Stables
The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi
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The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014
Legendary British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has died aged 77, helped bring to the screen some of arthouse cinema's most enduring films, from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1982) to The Last Emperor (1987) to Crash (1996) to Sexy Beast (2000). In tribute, we republish this extended interview, conducted in 2014.
By Nick James
The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi
“He is the blockbuster given human form”: J. Hoberman on Arnold Schwarzenegger
By J. Hoberman
“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting
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
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