Features and reviews
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Salaam Bombay! ranks with the masterpieces of neo-realism
Mira Nair’s stunning debut exploring the lives of Indian street children carries the narrative’s rich ambiguity through to its final scene, as Alex Dudok de Wit wrote in this piece first published in our October 2017 issue.
By Alex Dudok de Wit
The space between: when games allow our imagination to fill in the blanks
By Henry Barnes
What to watch at the London Indian Film Festival
By Krushil Patel
Hell freezes over: the Coen brothers on Fargo
By Lizzie Francke
Mona Lisa: going back to the locations of the British neo-noir, 35 years later
By Adam Scovell
Killers in the mist: the final scene of Gun Crazy
By Beatrice Loayza
Where to begin with Ousmane Sembène
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
By Janet Bergstrom
It takes a village: how Resident Evil fans are improving the franchise
By Katie Granger
Vile VHS: unspooling the history of the ‘video nasty’ controversy
By Kim Newman
Revisiting pioneering transgender documentary A Change of Sex 40 years on
By Rachel Pronger
Against the rules: anarchist cinema then and now
By Richard Porton
Where is my mind? What video games taught me about other people
By Katie Granger
Richard Burton’s London: revisiting the locations of gangland classic Villain, 50 years later
By Adam Scovell
An archive-only BBC Four means losing a platform for quiet documentary storytelling
By Jeanie Finlay
Dim the lights: the spell of watching films in the dark
By Peter Conrad
Call me by my name: Thandiwe Newton and the whitewashing of film stars’ names
By Christina Newland
100 years of the British phone box: a design icon on screen
By Emilia Rolewicz
“Rearrange their faces and give them all another name”: on Bob Dylan and I’m Not There
By Michael Gray
One more time: nostalgia and gaming’s remake culture
By Stuart Burnside
Quarantine foreseen: the films that accidentally predicted the pandemic
By Jonathan Romney
Muriel Box: the government files on the work of Britain’s pioneering female director
By Josephine Botting and Sarah Castagnetti
Cinema paradiso: a tour through the BFI Southbank’s history
By Pamela Hutchinson
Playing a round: loops, lockdown and Atomicrops
By Henry Barnes
On beauties and their beasts
By Marina Warner
Jungle Fever at 30: Spike Lee’s thorny interracial love story
By Alex Ramon
In pictures: Makeup in the age of the flapper
By Nigel Arthur