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Cannes Film Festival 2012
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Follow Nick James and our correspondents on the Croisette. Today: Cannes is where all the best directors are, says Geoff Andrew.
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Ebertfest: thumbs on hearts
Festival postcard
At Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, films, filmmakers and fans come together under the guiding hand of the World’s Most Famous Film Critic. Scott Jordan Harris joins the communion
The lost continent: opening up British silent film history Festival report
Conventional wisdom says Britain’s few canonised directors of the late silent era learned more from the Soviet cinema than their native culture. The true history, reports Henry K Miller from the British Silent Film Festival, is not so black and white
Artists (still) at play: Ann Arbor at 50 Festival postcard
Stephen Connolly pays his respects to a legacy of lively engagement at North America’s preeminent festival of artists’ movies
» Doing time: ‘slow cinema’ at the AV Festival Postcard
» Obituaries 2011
Features and interviews
The mark of Kane
The greatest films ever made?
With S&S’s Greatest Film of All Time poll looming, David Thomson wonders whether Citizen Kane will – or should – retain its top spot. (From our January 2011 issue.)
Garlands and cobwebs: Vincente Minnelli’s ecstatic vision
The greatest window-dresser in the movies, MGM star director Vincente Minnelli at his best made his gilded surfaces resonate with the undercurrents of his characters’ inner lives. Keith Uhlich picks out the gems from the trinkets
Lech Majewski: still life with movement Interview
Polish visual artist and filmmaker Lech Majewski talks to Basia Lewandowska Cummings about Bruegel Suite, part of his Moving Walls installation, why he abandoned art school for film school – and why art cannot save us
» Blood and sand: Beau Travail The greatest films of all time?
» Simon Bright on Mugabe, mobs and moral defiance Interview
Reviews
Faust Film of the month (June)
Winner of the Golden Lion at last year’s Viennale, Alexander Sokurov’s retelling of the Faust legend finally arrives on these shores. But it’s not just the film’s hero who’s suffering from hubris, says Tony Rayns
Infernal combustion: magic, machines, montage and The Robinson Institute Installation
Patrick Keiller’s reworking of his ‘Robinson’ trilogy as an installation at Tate Britain is a study of British industry’s own uncanny vanishing act. Henry K Miller sees the artist update his beloved Humphrey Jennings – again
Goodbye First Love Film of the month (May)
Girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl meets older man… The new film by Mia Hansen-Løve confirms the promise of Father of My Children with a frank – and very French – look at the pangs of young love, says Philip Kemp
Island of Lost Souls DVD
The 1932 film of H.G. Wells’s Dr Moreau story is disturbing and subtextually explosive, writes Michael Atkinson
» Damsels in Distress New release
» Group Portrait with Lady Lost and found
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The current issue
Wes Anderson goes scouting:
the June 2012 issue
Our cover star talks 1965 island hideaways and his Cannes opener Moonrise Kingdom. Plus Béla Tarr’s last testament, screenwriting with Paul Laverty and Jean-Claude Carrière, Arab Spring cinema and the art of Colonel Blimp
Polls and surveys
The web video of 2011 Year in review
13 critics and curators on their favourite videos new online in 2011
The DVDs of 2011
Year in review
23 critics and curators pick out their releases – and rediscoveries – of the year, including Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End, Zoltán Huszárik’s Szindbád, the several versions of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil and ‘The Theo Angelopoulos Collection’
The films of 2011
Year in review
In a strong year for arthouse cinema, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life emerged as the clear winner of the S&S poll of international critics’ best films of 2011, says Nick James
PLUS: see the full poll
» Forgotten pleasures of the multiplex
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