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Hamaguchi Ryūsuke: insights on and from the Japanese auteur Plus: Mica Levi on their innovative score for The Zone of Interest – Víctor Erice interviewed about his masterful return to feature filmmaking, Close Your Eyes – a festival report from a politically charged Berlinale
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“Few films, in own experience, have bristled with so many problems”: Michael Balcon on Scott of the Antarctic
In our Winter 1948/49 issue, Michael Balcon, the legendary British producer and head of Ealing Studios, recalled the manifold challenges faced by the crew of the Robert Falcon Scott biopic.
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The unhappy happy ending of Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow
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There’s Still Tomorrow: a dark melodrama fuelled by humour, rage and neorealism
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Fantastic Machine: a frustrating whistlestop tour of humankind’s relationship with the camera
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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
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
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Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
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