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Les bon temps rouler: rolling with Les Blank’s good-time movies
In this piece from our February 2015 issue, Nick Pinkerton celebrates the late documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s joyful, raucous, you-are-there dispatches from the disappearing margins of American life.
By Nick Pinkerton
Watch a cult classic #8: The Company of Wolves
By Katherine McLaughlin
Red, White and Blue shows us the loneliness of the Black police reformer
By Gary Younge
Remembering British film star Anne Crawford on the centenary of her birth
By Josephine Botting
The best of brand film: EVCOM London Film and Live Awards 2020
By Patrick Russell
“Welcome to the circle. Bang bang”: Iain Sinclair on King of New York
By Iain Sinclair
Lovers Rock is a precious hand-me-down of hazy weekends past
By Candice Carty-Williams
TV that tackled the troubles: Play for Today and Northern Ireland
By Professor John Hill
Blood and redemption: Lizzie Borden on Raging Bull and male inhibition
By Lizzie Borden
Blackness, labour, place: the radical cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson
By Elena Gorfinkel
Mangrove gives voice to Black British Power
By Kehinde Andrews
Małgorzata Szumowska on American movies and communist Krakow
By Malgorzata Szumowska
Viggo Mortensen on watching widescreen epics in 1960s Buenos Aires
By Viggo Mortensen
Where to begin with Anthony Asquith
By David Parkinson
In search of the locations for Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless
By Adam Scovell
Mank prints the legend of Hollywood as a gilded cage
By Farran Smith Nehme
On being Black in film noir
By Angelica Jade Bastién
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project and televising the revolution
By Matthew Harle
Telling Black stories: Kemp Powers on the universality of Soul and One Night in Miami
By Kofi Oteng
My dream palaces: Edgar Wright revels in a life at the movies
By Edgar Wright
The lost Play for Todays we’ll never see
By Lisa Kerrigan
40 years of The Long Good Friday: How the London locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Before Bond: Sean Connery’s early years
By Geoffrey Macnab
Tales from the Hood, the cult horror comedy 25 years on
By Isaura Barbé-Brown
Ghoulies and ghosties: Curtis Harrington on the evolution of the supernatural horror film
By Curtis Harrington
Ali Rasoul: My tips on how to make it in the screen industries
By Ali Rasoul
In praise of Dementia, the psychosexual dream-horror that New York banned
By Kat Ellinger