All articles by Tony Rayns
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
All films exist in slightly different cuts but sometimes the alternative versions are fascinating in their own right, with entirely new scenes and different rhythms that enable them to stand on their own against the original. We pick some of the most intriguing examples.
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
To the Ends of the Earth is a soppy satire that finds nothing new on its travels
By Tony Rayns
Rebecca returns to Manderlay, but no one’s home
By Tony Rayns
The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women
By Isabel Stevens, Bryony Dixon and others
The Eight Hundred review: a puffed-up reprise of the defence of Shanghai
By Tony Rayns
“Alan Moore pushed me to think less about the killer and more about the spirit of the times”: Bong Joon Ho on Memories of Murder
By Tony Rayns
Poet of time: Wong Kar-Wai on Chungking Express
By Tony Rayns
The Truth: Catherine Deneuve plays a monstrous movie star in Koreeda’s French adventure
By Tony Rayns
The Truth review: Catherine Deneuve plays a monstrous movie star in Koreeda’s French adventure
By Tony Rayns
First Love review: Takashi Miike adds romance into the mix of a lurid gang thriller
By Tony Rayns
Present.Perfect. review: the Chinese video bloggers streaming their way to better lives
By Tony Rayns
Long Day’s Journey Into Night review: Bi Gan’s extravagant art noir wows in three dimensions
By Tony Rayns
Burning review: Lee Changdong’s drama sparks with rage and imagination
By Tony Rayns
Tokyo FILMeX 2018 championed the cinema of exile and liberation
By Tony Rayns
An Elephant Sitting Still review: a howl of desperate defiance
By Tony Rayns
Kim Dongwon: a documentary filmmaker for Korea’s changing times
By Tony Rayns
Film of the week: Cold War dances to the music of hard times
By Tony Rayns
Flights of fantasy: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2018
By Tony Rayns
Rainer Werner Fassbinder interviewed in 1974: “The primary need is to satisfy the audience”
By Tony Rayns
Suzuki Seijun obituary: Japanese cinema’s dazzler of the deep Bs
By Tony Rayns
Film of the week: Endless Poetry, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s self-portrait as a Santiago dandy
By Tony Rayns
Film of the week: Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One
By Tony Rayns
Doc of the week: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
By Tony Rayns