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Małgorzata Szumowska on American movies and communist Krakow
Continuing our celebration of cinemas, Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska recalls the magic of the big screen during Covid, via her memories of cinema-going under communism.
By Malgorzata Szumowska
Małgorzata Szumowska on American movies and communist Krakow
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Dea Kulumbegashvili recalls her cinephile education at the Cinema House in Tbilisi
By Dea Kulumbegashvili
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“What happens after the film is as important as what happens during the film”: Cristi Puiu on cinema culture past, present and future
By Cristi Puiu
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“Savour the NFT”: Gurinder Chadha on watching and shooting films at her favourite cinema
By Gurinder Chadha
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“It was a validation of their stories”: Sarah Gavron on showing Rocks in the cast’s own East London locality
By Sarah Gavron
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
By Nick Broomfield
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
By Katie McCabe and Isabel Stevens
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Oliver Laxe on a profound encounter with Carl Theodor Dreyer on a day of reckoning for Spanish politics
By Oliver Laxe
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Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
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“We can’t be so individualistic that we lose these shared experiences”: Lulu Wang on why the world needs cinemas
By Lulu Wang
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“You’ve got to pick what you think is important in this world and make sure it survives”: Richard Linklater on sharing the gospel of cinema
“You’ve got to pick what you think is important in this world and make sure it survives”: Richard Linklater on sharing the gospel of cinemaMy Dream Palace
“The theatre experience transcends all the lines that separate us”: Regina King on her dream palaces
By Regina King
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“Viva cinema!”: Luca Guadagnino immerses himself in electric shadows
By Luca Guadagnino
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“Cinema is an oneiric medium and the cinema hall transposes you there”: Chaitanya Tamhane on his dream palaces
“Cinema is an oneiric medium and the cinema hall transposes you there”: Chaitanya Tamhane on his dream palacesMy Dream Palace
Lynne Ramsay on the magic behind the velvet curtain
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Kleber Mendonça Filho on Recife’s Cinema São Luiz, his hometown picture palace
By Kleber Mendonça Filho
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“Cinema is my happy place”: Francis Lee celebrates cinemas as community spaces
By Francis Lee
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Christian Petzold on discovering The Deer Hunter one wintry night in Berlin
By Christian Petzold
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Tug of love: a cinema pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins
By Nick James
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Cate Shortland on escaping suburbia in Australia’s arthouse cinemas
By Cate Shortland
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Rian Johnson on the distinct charm of the New Beverly Cinema
By Rian Johnson
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Viggo Mortensen on watching widescreen epics in 1960s Buenos Aires
By Viggo Mortensen
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Mark Cousins on Sarajevo’s Obala cinema and watching films in a war zone
By Mark Cousins
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Peter Strickland on the Husets Biograf, Copenhagen’s cinematic cabinet of curiosities
By Peter Strickland
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My dream palaces: Edgar Wright revels in a life at the movies
By Edgar Wright
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Zhu Shengze on watching movies in Wuhan and the oasis that is Missouri’s Ragtag cinema
By Zhu Shengze
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Wanuri Kahiu pays tribute to Nairobi’s Fox drive-in cinema
By Wanuri Kahiu
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Céline Sciamma on the Cinema Utopia, the cinema of her teens
By Céline Sciamma
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Richard Stanley hymns London’s Scala cinema
By Richard Stanley