Reviews
Films of the Month
Faust 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
» Goodbye First Love May
» Into the Abyss April
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Other cinema releases
She Monkeys New release
Lisa Aschan’s cryptic fairytale of young womanhood casts its subjects in an uncanny ambience of pale half-light and thick steam. Catherine Wheatley peers quizzically
Damsels in Distress
New release
The erstwhile laureate of satires of the American preppie heart, Whit Stillman breaks his 13-year silence with a decidedly tongue-in-cheek college comedy. Kate Stables wonders if its frivolity is for real
Breathing
New release
Karl Markovics’ debut study of an institutionalised teenager finding release in mortuary work takes several leaves from the Dardennes’ neorealist playbook. Catherine Wheatley sees muted naturalism turn to the sublime
» The Cabin in the Woods New release
» Le Havre New release
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Shows, events and special screenings
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
The Magpie Index: Roy Harper sings for the birds Artists’ video
Richard Grayson’s evocative video portrait places the songwriter in a complex lineage of British dissent, says Frances Morgan
Dara Birnbaum: the caged artist Exhibition
Laura Allsop on the video appropriator’s new and old visions of suffering for – and in – one’s art
» Diving spirits: Chick Strand Artists’ movies
» New directors, new voices in the London Film Festival First look
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DVDs
Island of Lost Souls June
The 1932 film of H.G. Wells’s Dr Moreau story is disturbing and subtextually explosive, writes Michael Atkinson
» The Mizoguchi Collection
» On the Bowery
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Close up (films in focus)
Group Portrait with Lady
Lost and found
Like so many films by the great Yugoslavian director Aleksandar Petrovic, Group Portrait with Lady is off the radar. By Vlastimir Sudar
Image lib: John Berger’s Ways of Seeing Out of the archive
Forty years ago John Berger’s BBC2 series challenged us to be wiser consumers of fine art. As BFI Southbank marks the anniversary, Jonathan Conlin asks if the series speaks to us today
The revolution of inaction: This Is Not a Film
Made under house arrest, Jafar Panahi’s In Film Nist (This Is Not a Film) breaks all the rules, says Amy Taubin (from our July 2011 Cannes issue)
» Gervaise Lost and found
» Manuel Mur Oti Lost and found
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Forthcoming events
Current and imminent UK film festivals, seasons and special of note
