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The best video essays of 2021
Introspection and the act of watching emerged as recurring themes across a year in which video makers responded to the realities of a continuing pandemic. Our poll of 30 video essayists, academics, critics and filmmakers highlights 120 recommendations.
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Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s flawed but moving portrait of the Troubles
By Trevor Johnston
The Matrix: Resurrections is a welcome antidote to generic blockbusters
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Apichatpong on Memoria, his odyssey into the soundscapes of Colombia
By Tony Rayns
“My thoughts on the New Wave are not uplifting”: Truffaut interviewed in 1979
By Don Allen
Hitchcockery: Truffaut and Bogdanovich, under the Master’s influence
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Our November 2021 issue
50 years after its release, we reveal the untold stories behind A Clockwork Orange, as seen through the relationship between author Anthony Burgess and director Stanley Kubrick + Edgar Wright on Last Night in Soho, Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall, Małgorzata Szumowska on Never Gonna Snow Again, Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground, the best of Venice and much more…
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
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Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
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