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Performance – In search of the locations for the Mick Jagger classic, 50 years later
Delayed for release by its own studio, Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s Performance is a kaleidoscopic odyssey into the dark heart of swinging London. Half a century since it was filmed, Adam Scovell went looking for its locations.
Monday 20 August 2018 -
Video: Heathers director Michael Lehmann and actor Lisanne Falk
The director and one of the stars of Heathers, the 80s teen cult classic that featured Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in early roles, visited the BFI for the premiere of the film’s 4K restoration.
Monday 20 August 2018
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10 great New York films about female friendship
With the sparkling Manhattan comedy The Women back in cinemas, we celebrate some of the best New York movies about female camaraderie.
Friday 17 August 2018 -
Flights of fantasy: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2018
Though it may not aspire to the highest critical standards in its programming, South Korea’s second international film festival screens the fantasy genre hits which many ‘proper’ festivals don’t deign to, reports Tony Rayns.
Friday 17 August 2018 -
Christopher Robin review: now we are middle-aged
Ewan McGregor plays Winnie the Pooh’s best friend as a grumpy grownup who gets a boost from the return of his Hundred Acre Wood chums in this amiable, poignant adventure. Review by Nick Pinkerton.
Friday 17 August 2018 -
Video: Agnès Varda – filmmaker, photographer, Instagrammer
An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a majority of users in the 18-24 age range, followed photography and film as her medium of choice.
Thursday 16 August 2018
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Film of the week: The Guardians depicts a cruel betrayal on the home front
In Xavier’s Beauvois’s beautiful new film, Nathalie Baye is magnificent as the matriarch overseeing home and harvest during the First World War, while her son falls for her new farmhand Francine, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 16 August 2018 -
Locarno first look: Ray & Liz reveals a troubled family scrap by scrap
Richard Billingham’s obliquely topical debut feature offers a fragmented story of life in inner-city Birmingham during the Thatcher years, as bruising memories rise to the surface, writes James Lattimer.
Wednesday 15 August 2018 -
Locarno first look: Diane is a triumph of decency over despair
Kent Jones makes his fiction debut with this warm and very astute portrait of a widow in a small town, grappling with a difficult son and the fragility of life as she ages, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Wednesday 15 August 2018 -
Locarno first look: Too Late to Die Young depicts a country coming of age
Set in the aftermath of the Pinochet regime, Dominga Sotomayor’s accomplished third film explores different generations adapting to new freedoms and an uncertain future, writes Josh Slater-Williams.
Wednesday 15 August 2018
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