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Saving London’s Cinema Museum: A Little Film Club
By Deirdre O’Neill. The Cinema Museum in London
By Martin Mulcahey. Hollywood has not always been accepting of Latinas. Current stars Salma Hayek, Eva Mendes, and Penélope Cruz follow in the footsteps of trailblazing Dolores Del…
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By Carmel Doohan. “Social realism, what the fuck is social realism?” Paddy Considine, Director of Tyrannosaur (Little White Lies- Oct 2011) The ‘social’ came from ‘socialist’. When the…
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By Omar Robert Hamilton. No form of art is as tied to reality as cinema. Though Hollywood would have us think differently, the fundamental element to making…
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By Celluloid Liberation Front. ‘We don’t want to disrupt taxpayers from the benefit of cultural democracy, do we?’ (Museum Guard in Savage Messiah) British cinema lost with Ken…
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By Ken Chen. Susan Sontag once called transparency – the luminousness of the thing in itself – the highest value in contemporary film. By this, she meant the…
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By Gary Bettinson. In 1967, movie actor Warren Beatty assumed the mantle of producer with Bonnie and Clyde. His decision to harness greater production responsibility not only coincided…
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By Christopher Sharrett. It seems to me that Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011) is an important film (it is too soon to say if it is…
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By Celluloid Liberation Front. “If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth.” African proverb The recent urban…
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By Alexander Kirschenbaum. ‘Am I different somehow? Is it live or is it Memorex?’ (Seth Brundle [Jeff Goldblum] in David Cronenberg’s The Fly [1986]) For the purposes of…
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By Joacim Blomqvist. The Swedish general elections of September 2010, confirmed that Sweden is becoming a less tolerant society in many ways. For the first time a xenophobic…
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Festival Reports
A Revolutionary Festival: 33rd International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema at Montpellier (October 21-29, 2011) »
By Christiane Passevant translated by Neville Rigby. True to tradition, the 33rd International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, CINEMED, fulfilled its role in revealing new cinematic talent, while also reflecting the new movements, revolts…
Read More »EPFF6: Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, 3-6 November 2011 »
By Yun-hua Chen. Organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis under the Honorary Presidency of Bernardo Bertolucci, the Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival is a miniature film festival with the specific theme of “Border-Crossing:…
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Interview
Treasures from the Archives: an interview with Clyde Jeavons »
By Parviz Jahed. Clyde Jeavons is the programmer of the London Film Festival’s ‘Treasures from the Archive’ section. He…
Read More »The New Tenants’ Day from Hell Leads to an Oscar »
The New Tenants won the Academy Award for best live action short film in 2010. Amy R. Handler has…
Read More »The Man with the Video Camera: an interview with Alain Cavalier »
By Santiago Rubín de Celis. The films by Alain Cavalier (born in Vendôme, France, in 1931) are the result…
Read More »Born in Suez: Khaled El Hagar »
At the inaugural launch of the UK’s recurring Arabic Film Festival, Omar Kholeif, the festival’s director caught up with…
Read More »Just Doing It: an interview with Emily James »
By Deirdre O’Neill. Emily James is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer who has worked in both television and…
Read More »Print the Legend: Andrew Rossi on Page One – Inside the New York Times »
By Matthew Sorrento. In the early 1930s, just after the birth of sound in movies, an older medium was…
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