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​‘I tried to infuse my love of movies into this movie‘

Interviews by Marina Ashioti

In conversation with Sophy Romvari

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Black Swan at the A.R.T: an unearthly medley of film, musical theatre and ballet

by Abigail Stevens

Boston’s ambitious adaptation leverages the tricks of various performing arts trades and, after all these years, finally sets Natalie Portman’s doomed ballerina free.
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Blue Heron review – wonderful, emotionally generous film

by Jenna Mahale

Sophy Romvari’s deeply personal debut traces a Hungarian immigrant family’s turbulent new life in Canada through the eyes of its youngest child.

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Young girl in blue dress sits on grass holding black device, with orange and pink balloons nearby and football goal in background.
Review

Blue Heron review – wonderful, emotionally generous film

by Jenna Mahale

Sophy Romvari’s deeply personal debut traces a Hungarian immigrant family’s turbulent new life in Canada through the eyes of its youngest child.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Nino review – fails to pull its punches

by David Jenkins

A young man grapples with a cancer diagnosis in Pauline Loquès‘ feature debut, which never quite fulfils its potential.

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Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day review – a muddled adaptation

by Lillian Crawford

As a young astronomer pushes back against the conventions of Edwardian society, Tina Gharavi’s adaptation leaves its most intriguing ideas frustratingly underexplored.

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Lesbian Space Princess review – Sapphic sci-fi romp

by Emily Maskell

An introverted lesbian space princess embarks on an intergalactic quest to rescue her ex from evil incel aliens. 

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Effi O Blaenau review – stealthy socialist propaganda

by Fatima Sheriff

A rebellious young woman’s life is transformed by a chance encounter in North Wales in this moving adaptation of Gary Owen’s ​‘Iphigenia in Splott‘.

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Familiar Touch review – a remarkable feature debut

by Savina Petkova

Kathleen Chalfant stars in this deeply tender drama about an elderly woman adjusting to life in a care home as her memory begins to fade.

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Not Movies

Black Swan at the A.R.T: an unearthly medley of film, musical theatre and ballet

by Abigail Stevens

Boston’s ambitious adaptation leverages the tricks of various performing arts trades and, after all these years, finally sets Natalie Portman’s doomed ballerina free.
Interviews

Sophy Romvari: ‘I tried to infuse my love of movies into this movie‘

by Marina Ashioti

The writer/​director of Blue Heron on how the nostalgic power of cinema can create poetic chronicles of the past.
Features

Porous Encounters: A Queer East Correspondence

by Rebecca Liu, Nam Hua

In collaboration with the Queer East Film Festival, this year’s Emerging Critics cohort offer their responses to the film programme.
Big Shorts

The Lost Art of Pixar Short Films

by Abigail Stevens

Pixar’s library of original short films offered meticulously pensive experiences to theatrical audiences. Whatever happened to them?
This Just In

The quiet pro-life narratives of today's horror

by Billie Walker

If hagsploitation wasn’t bad enough, a new spate of male-directed horror films is displaying a worrying reliance on anti-abortion rhetoric.
In Praise Of

The Truth of the Image: La Belle Noiseuse at 35

by Tom Lordan

Jacques Rivette’s film is striking for its psychological complexity, its depiction of artistic practice, and marks a timely reminder of the disquieting capacity of images to disclose truths about ourselves.
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Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at 100

by Juliette Bretan

On the centenary of a Polish cinema giant, we remember the powerful storytelling of Andrzej Wajda through his war and post-war films.
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Celebrating the Splendour, Anarchy and Creative Genius of Sandy Powell

by Desirae Embree

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of James Whale’s 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein marks 40 years in the singular career of costume designer Sandy Powell.
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Deep Cuts

Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin Suicides

by Paul Weedon

The French electronic duo were the musical backbone behind Sofia Coppola’s startling debut. A 25th anniversary reissue saw them reconstructing much of their work from scratch.
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Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025

by Mila Fielker

A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?
Deep Cuts

The New Bootlegs: Open Matte Films & Unofficial Scans

by Lexie Corbett

The unofficial, often open matte scans of these films preserve a tactile history of cinema in its imperfect totality.
Deep Cuts

When pop stars become auteurs

by Anna McKibbin

The visual album is a key, genre-defying vessel for pop music titans transferring the symbolic power of their music to image-making.
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