So Mayer
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“It is about moments of connecting and not connecting”: Kelly Reichardt on Certain Women
The old pioneer ethics of fortitude and hard work drive the trio of contemporary tales that make up Reichardt’s Montana-set Certain Women, a film that’s sharply attuned to life on the margins as it outlines its characters’ determined efforts to forge a connection. From our March 2017 issue.
By So Mayer
Rose Plays Julie is a mythic thriller about women and violence
By So Mayer
Ten films to watch out for in 2020
By Isabel Stevens, Kaleem Aftab and others
Not in Kansas anymore: Warwick Thornton on Samson & Delilah
By Nick Bradshaw and So Mayer
‘My Best Girlfriend’: Queer Dietrich, on screen and off
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Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
The best film books, by 51 critics
By Geoff Andrew, Michael Atkinson and others
An A-Z of the 2010s in film
By Nick Bradshaw, Pamela Hutchinson and others
The tracks of time: Sarah Turner on Perestroika, her Siberian train travelogue to the end of the world
By So Mayer
Watching the watchers: how Cameraperson enriches the act of filming
By So Mayer
Generation snowflake: Frozen II and the quest for climate justice
By So Mayer
The web video of 2012: contributors m
By So Mayer, Gaia Meucci and others
Merata: the Maori film legend and her legacy
By So Mayer
Disconnect my skin: The Great Hack visualises surveillance capitalism
By So Mayer
TV we can believe in: hope, growth and change in The Good Place and Steven Universe
By So Mayer
Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time
By Nick James, Brian Winston and others
Barbara Hammer obituary: an experimental pioneer who put lesbian life on screen
By So Mayer
Seven facets of Agnès Varda
By Ginette Vincendeau, Catherine Wheatley and others
Agnès Varda obituary: a luminous art of an illuminated life
By So Mayer
What goes around: Margarethe von Trotta’s history plays
By So Mayer
15 rare times when a director made great films in 5 or more different decades
By Alex Barrett, Martyn Conterio and others
Impressions of Agnès: Varda impresses London
By So Mayer
Cleverman: an Aboriginal sci-fi TV drama that delivers a thrilling cry for solidarity
By So Mayer
A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating
By Anne Billson, Mark Cousins and others
Maria Saakyan obituary: young visionary who reinvigorated Armenian cinema
By So Mayer
Wander women: vital films about women on the move
By So Mayer