Features and interviews
Interviews
Saura’s flamenco flights Q&A report
Carlos Saura’s 1980s ‘flamenco trilogy’, now released in a set of bare-bones DVDs, constitutes some of the boldest dance films ever made. As Mar Diestro-Dópido reports, on a recent visit to London the director provided all the background you need
Lech Majewski: still life with movement
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
The great dictator: Simon Bright on Mugabe, mobs and moral defiance
Zimbabwean activist Simon Bright risked imprisonment and torture to make Robert Mugabe… What Happened?. He tells Tom Harrad about filming post-colonial corruption from the inside
» Keeping the faith: Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste
» Anima anime: Suzan Pitt’s wild psyches
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Features
The battle of Chicago:
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Adapted by Sam Greenlee from his autobiographical fantasia about a token black CIA operative turned liberation leader, The Spook Who Sat by the Door might long have been recognised as one of the great African-American calls to arms – had it not been suppressed by the FBI, says David Somerset
The mark of Kane
The greatest films of all time?
With S&S’s Greatest Film of All Time poll looming, David Thomson launches a series of occasional debates on the canon, here wondering whether Citizen Kane will – or should – retain its top spot
Blood and sand: Beau Travail
In the latest of our essays making the case for contenders in S&S’s poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, Hannah McGill revisits Beau Travail, Claire Denis’s rapturous 1998 exploration of male identity in crisis
» Garlands and cobwebs: Vincente Minnelli’s ecstatic vision
» The great escape: La Grande Illusion The greatest films of all time?
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