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Trailers

Watch the Spielberg-inspired trailer for the 24th Raindance Film Festival

by Alex Chambers

Direc­tor Fil­ip­po Capuzzi Lapi­etra has cre­at­ed a charm­ing trib­ute for the festival’s 2016 edition.
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Raiders! – The fan made Indiana Jones remake even Spielberg loves

by Alex Chambers

A new doc­u­men­tary reveals how three best friends cre­at­ed the ulti­mate Hol­ly­wood homage.
Three people sitting on a beach, man and two women, watching the sunset.
Review

Holding the Man

by Alex Chambers

This Aus­tralian saga sweeps through the AIDS epi­dem­ic, though offers lit­tle in the way of new insight.

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Why does cinema keep returning to America’s violent past?

by Alex Chambers

Matthew McConaugh­ey dra­ma Free State of Jones points to a fas­ci­na­tion with the nation’s bloody ori­gin story.
A group of young people in white and purple uniforms jumping and celebrating together on a stage.
Review

Streetdance Family

by Alex Chambers

Slick moves aside there’s lit­tle to take away from this high-ener­gy, low-dra­ma dance doc.

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A man operating a large IMAX film camera outdoors on a mountainous landscape.
Incoming

Everything we know about Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk

by Alex Chambers

With film­ing under­way we take a look at how the director’s World War Two dra­ma is shap­ing up.
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Check out these incredible public information films from the BFI archives

by Alex Chambers

Short films such as Women in Indus­try and Play­ing with Fire are a fas­ci­nat­ing time cap­sule of post­war Britain.
Black and white image of three people sitting on a floor, one person in the middle surrounded by various objects.

How Tim Burton found his weird roots in Hansel and Gretel

by Alex Chambers

Many of the director’s trade­marks can be seen in his 1982 adap­ta­tion of the clas­sic Grimms’ fairy tale.
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Feed, The War Room and the awkward reality of American politics

by Alex Chambers

How two ear­ly ​’90s doc­u­men­taries exposed the media machin­ery that helps deter­mine US elections.
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Review

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

by Alex Chambers

Fran­co Zeffirelli’s tra­di­tion­al retelling of the most famous love sto­ry ever told is one for Shake­speare com­pletists only.

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Two individuals, a woman and a man, working together on a camera in a dimly lit room.

Guy Maddin’s latest project is a hallucinatory online experience

by Alex Chambers

The Cana­di­an direc­tor uses a bespoke algo­rithm to take audi­ences on a unique inter­ac­tive journey.
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Film Music

The strange beauty of Neil Young’s Dead Man soundtrack

by Alex Chambers

Direc­tor Jim Jar­musch found the per­fect cre­ative kin­dred spir­it for his sur­re­al mono­chrome western.