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Berlinale 2012
The Sight & Sound blog
Nick James and S&S contributors report from the unknown quantity that is this year’s Berlin film festival. Read the collated entries, or see the index of individual posts
The politics of ventilation:
Arika’s ‘A Film is a Statement’ festival Postcard
Chris Fujiwara communes with the participatory audience at the first of Arika’s three ambitious festival experiments for 2012
London Short Film Festival:
Winners and rejects Postcard
This year’s LSFF even showed the films it wasn’t showing. Dylan Cave peruses the award winners – and refusés
London Short Film Festival: Nine of the best Preview
Dylan Cave picks out nine titles in this year’s festival line-up
» Encounters short film festival: Circumnavigating the world (and some time travel) Report
» The rebel confederacy: Doc Alliance at CPH:DOX Postcard
» More festival coverage
News
Sex, death, odysseys and cold climates:
the February 2012 issue
Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender on Shame, plus The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Ken Russell, John Akomfrah, Theo Angelopoulos and Charles Dickens
Review of the year:
the January 2012 issue
101 critics and curators on their films of the year; plus Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Carol Morley’s Dreams of a Life, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope and Pablo Giorgelli’s Las acacias
Ken Loach essay-writing competition results
Nick Bradshaw on the winners of our competition for young film writers
Obituaries and tributes
Harry Fowler, 1926-2012
Chirpy cockney character actor, from Hue and Cry to MBE
The Gilbert Adair files
Michael Brooke introduces our tribute trove of reviews, features, columns and wind-ups written by the late Adair (1944-2011) for S&S and our former sister publication the Monthly Film Bulletin
Time regained: Vittorio De Seta Close up
In tribute to the late Italian neorealist, who died in November, we’ve put online Kent Jones’s 2010 paean to his ‘The Lost World’, a series of stunning 1950s documentaries preserve everyday moments that we never even knew we’d lost
Comment
The Gilbert Adair files:
Double takes – Heurtebise
Winter 1984 to Summer 1985
Adair’s pseudonymous contributions to Sight & Sound’s Double Takes column, from our Gilbert Adair tribute trove
The Ms-fits Prize fighting
This year’s Best Actress race inspires Nick James’s best clairvoyant impersonation
Fight for rights, will to power: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Guest opinion
Greg Tate explores the shifting struggles for black equality – and identity – presented in a new narrated documentary montage of footage found in the Swedish television archives
» Persona non grata: Lars von Trier’s Nazi rebellion Behind the news
» The land still lies: Handsworth Songs and the English riots Out of the archive
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