Kathryn Bigelow

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine on their movie inspirations

By Al Horner

The pair’s new concept album ‘A Beginner’s Mind’ takes its cues from an eclectic list of films, from Mad Max to The Silence of the Lambs.

The sobering prescience of Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days

By Thomas Hobbs

The director’s 1995 tech noir isn’t her most critically or commercially successful film, but it might just be her most important.

Detroit

By David Jenkins

Kathryn Bigelow returns with this expansive, rousing and overwrought cine-autopsy of the 1967 Detroit riots.

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Detroit, Charlottesville and filming the American race war

By Nicholas Laskin

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film is part of a larger, ongoing cultural problem.

25 new films by female directors you need to see

By Eve Watling

2017 is shaping up to be an exceptional year for women behind the camera.

Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit gets a pulsating first trailer

By Sophie Wyatt

Take a first look at the director’s upcoming drama about the 1967 Detroit riots.

The 100 best films of the 1990s: 25-1

By Little White Lies

Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow and Wong Kar-wai feature in the final part of our ’90s ranking.

It Felt Like Love: A celebration of 50 great female filmmakers

By Little White Lies

Personal odes to some of the finest women directors from around the world.

The team behind Zero Dark Thirty are making a TV show about Trump vs Clinton

By Rebecca Dykstra

The US election saga is being serialised by screenwriter Mark Boal.

End Times – How America’s war machine perpetuates a false threat to liberty

By Forrest Cardamenis

In the first of a series of essays on Obama Era Cinema, Forrest Cardamenis counts the toll of US foreign policy during Barack Obama’s presidency.

Why do women make better film editors?

By Thomas Hobbs

Despite so few opportunities for female directors, women are currently thriving in the cutting room.

Why it’s time we started seeing more women making ‘male’ movies

By Katy Vans

Directors like Susanna White should be helming major franchises.

The Hurt Locker

By Kingsley Marshall

Kathryn Bigelow’s long-awaited directorial return is a commendably mature response to conflict.

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