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Berlinale
Henry Fonda for President
★★★★★

No, the American actor Henry Fonda never ventured from the red carpet to the corridors...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February
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Berlinale
Spaceman: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano and Johan Renck at the Berlinale 2024 press conference

Who knew that Celine Dion helped Adam Sandler get into character? At the Berlinale press...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February
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Berlinale
“I decided to treat myself as someone else – creating the distance between me as a daughter and me as a filmmaker”: Costanza Quatriglio on The Secret Drawer at Berlinale 2024

It must be a daunting task to not only document your family’s own history, but...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February
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Berlinale
The Secret Drawer
★★★★★

When a documentary filmmaker turns their camera on themself or their own family, the results...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February

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Cannes
Motel Destino
★★★★★

Motels have a cinematic reputation as providing a bolthole to drifters, ne’er do wells and...

Mark Worgan 24^th May
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Cannes
Misericordia
★★★★★

Latin for “mercy”, the term “misericordia” denotes a devotional song during service, asking for God’s...

Selina Sondermann 24^th May
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Cannes
All We Imagine as Light
★★★★★

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light may be one of the final films to...

Mark Worgan 24^th May
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Cinema & Tv
“Cate Blanchett told me Tár was not only the story of a conductor. And our film was not only about a conductor”: Benjamin Lavernhe on The Marching Band at Cannes Film Festival 2024

Tár star Cate Blanchett gave French actor Benjamin Lavernhe an important tip before taking his...

Mark Worgan 22^nd May

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Venice
“The coma is a pretext to tell the immobility of people stuck in their routine”: Valerio Mastandrea interview on Feeling Better

Valerio Mastandrea’s latest film, Feeling Better, takes audiences on a poignant and imaginative exploration of...

Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 17^th September
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Venice
“For me, life is just more beautiful with humour”: Bernhard Wenger on Peacock at Venice Film Festival 2024

The International Critics Week is a parallel section of the Venice Film Festival dedicated to...

Selina Sondermann 17^th September
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Venice
“I like questions more when it comes to creating a character, rather than finding the answers”: Albrecht Schuch on Peacock at Venice Film Festival 2024

As with any big festival, smaller parallel sections, tucked away from the glitzy main competition,...

Selina Sondermann 17^th September
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Venice
Peacock
★★★★★

At the International Critics Week, which runs parallel to the Venice film festival, the directorial...

Selina Sondermann 17^th September

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Film festivals
The Listeners
★★★★★

As told by those on the other side of the experience, often the easiest way...

Thomas Messner 19^th November
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Film festivals
“Both Christopher and Dana didn’t want barriers or borders, they wanted people to achieve their dreams”: Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte on Super/Man – The Christopher Reeve Story at London Film Festival 2024

A hero in more ways than one, the story of Christopher Reeve – from donning...

Mae Trumata 29^th October
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The Summer Book: On the red carpet with Charlie McDowell, Emily Matthews and Robert Jones at London Film Festival 2024

A story of father, daughter and grandmother, The Summer Book stars Glenn Close, Anders Danielsen...

Mae Trumata 28^th October
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Bird: On the red carpet with Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda, James Nelson-Joyce and Frankie Box at London Film Festival 2024

The Upcoming hit the red carpet during London Film Festival for the premiere of Bird,...

Sarah Bradbury 23^rd October

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Glasgow
Last Straw
★★★★★

A night of terror awaits the manager of a small-town diner in Last Straw, the...

Andrew Murray 9^th March
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Glasgow
Edge of Summer
★★★★★

Lucy Cohen delivers a tender coming-of-age tale bristling with angsty adolescence in Edge of Summer....

Andrew Murray 8^th March
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Glasgow
Coup!
★★★★★

Writing and directing duo Joseph Schuman and Austin Stark create a giddy and darkly comic...

Andrew Murray 8^th March
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Cinema & Tv
“There are no bangs and flashes; it’s just a story about how we treat each other”: James Cosmo on My Sailor, My Love at Glasgow Film Festival 2023

Veteran actor James Cosmo (Braveheart, Highlander, His Dark Materials) stars opposite Brid Brennan and Catherine...

Andrew Murray 9^th March

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Film festivals
Kneecap
★★★★★

An indigenous language dies once every 40 days, and with it goes a sense of...

Guy Lambert 11^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Dìdi: On the red carpet with Sean Wang, Carlos Lopez and Valerie Bush at Sundance London 2024

This feature debut from filmmaker Sean Wang is a coming-of-age drama set in the 2000s...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Sundance London 2024: On the red carpet with Emerald Fennell

As Sundance Film Festival 2024 celebrates its 40-year anniversary, actor and filmmaker Emerald Fennell was...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Film festivals
Skywalkers: A Love Story
★★★★★

“We’re telling a love story,” so the self-designated “rooftopper” Angela Nikolau declares of the social...

Thomas Messner 7^th June

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Berlinale
Im Spinnwebhaus
★★★★★

Childhood tends to be portrayed sentimentally – an understandable...

Kira McPherson 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
Misfits
★★★★★

Misfits seems to be a controversial title for a film that attempts to deal with...

Keir Smith 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
Zurich
★★★★★

Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak’s second feature film is a dark tale about lost love,...

Friederike Trumpa 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
Love, Theft, and Other Entanglements
★★★★★

Over the past few years, cinema from the Middle East...

Daniel Engelke 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
★★★★★

The central themes of Eros and Thanatos in Peter Greenaway’s new...

Benedict McKenna 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
Iraqi Odyssey
★★★★★

War, destroyed cities, patriarchy: these are things that come to mind when...

Friederike Trumpa 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
13 Minutes
★★★★★

The Berlin Film Festival really couldn’t have got off to a better start for...

Benedict McKenna 15th February 2015
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Berlinale
Ned Rifle
★★★★★

Completing his obscure trilogy (Henry Fool, Faye Grim) that never quite got the...

Tim Mead 14th February 2015
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Berlinale
You’re Ugly Too
★★★★★

Mark Noonan’s debut You’re Ugly Too is a bittersweet drama reflecting...

Lyubomira Kirilova 14th February 2015
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Berlinale
Pioneer Heroes
★★★★★

Nizhny Novgorod, 1987: a class of schoolchildren are practising a rendition...

Rosie Boys 14th February 2015

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