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View ArticleIn The Name Of (2013)
One of the tales which makes up Flaubert’s Trois Contes is ‘La Légende de Saint-Julien l’Hospitalier’. Its message is poignant: in order to become a saint, one must first be a sinner. Flaubert focuses...
View ArticleVisitors (2013)
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View ArticleAldeburgh Documentary Festival 2014: 20th Anniversary
“Documentary changes what people think about what they think they know already” – Roger Graef, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award Another fantastic programme at this year’s Aldeburgh...
View ArticleSimon Schama in conversation with Nick Fraser
In what he calls ‘the age of the unsupported polemic’, Simon Schama far from dismisses an opinionated documentary style. Perhaps most famously in his most recent documentary series The Story of the...
View ArticlePussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)
Mike Lerner’s and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer opens with a quotation from Bertolt Brecht’s Messingkauf Dialogues: “Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to...
View ArticleThe Long Goodbye (1973)
Robert Altman’s controversial adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel gave birth to The Long Goodbye in 1973. In typical Altman style, with an acute awareness of genre and a mischievous will to invert...
View ArticleCinema Paradiso (1988)
Giuseppe Tornatore’s defining masterpiece Cinema Paradiso (1988) celebrates a Blu-ray re-release and a return to the big screen this month as part of the film’s highly-anticipated 25th anniversary....
View ArticleChild’s Pose (2013)
Calin Peter Netzer’s Romanian drama about the relationship between an ageing mother and her selfish and immature adult son won the Golden Berlin Bear and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International...
View ArticleThe Cat (2011)
Seung-wook Byeon’s South-Korean film The Cat (2011) evokes some of the classic East Asian horrors, such as Japan’s The Grudge (2002) and Ring (1998), both of which were so popular that American...
View ArticleIn The Name Of (2013)
One of the tales which makes up Flaubert’s Trois Contes is ‘La Légende de Saint-Julien l’Hospitalier’. Its message is poignant: in order to become a saint, one must first be a sinner. Flaubert focuses...
View ArticleVisitors (2013)
After more than a decade, Godfrey Reggio returns to write and direct for the big screen once more. Following on from the overwhelming success of his visually and auditorily experimental Qatsi film...
View ArticleDivan Film Festival 2014
A palatable blend of Balkan film, traditional national cuisine, and stimulating academic conversation has come to define Romania’s annual Divan Film Festival. Held each year in Port Cultural Cetate,...
View ArticleAldeburgh Documentary Festival 2014: 20th Anniversary
“Documentary changes what people think about what they think they know already” – Roger Graef, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award Another fantastic programme at this year’s Aldeburgh...
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