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Contributor David Jenkins

Festivals

Mark Jenkin and Mia Hansen-Løve will unveil new films at the 54th Directors’ Fortnight

by David Jenkins

They’ll be joined by fellow luminaries Alex Garland and Pietro Marcello when the Quinzaine returns to Cannes next month.
Festivals

Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

by David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.
Review

The Great Movement

by David Jenkins

A Bolivian miner with a terminal lung disease searches for salvation in Kiro Russo’s psychedelic latest.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Operation Mincemeat

by David Jenkins

Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen team up to foil a Nazi plot in this likeable World War Two caper.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

by David Jenkins

Arthur Harari charts the remarkable story of Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who refused to surrender at the end of World War Two.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Interviews

Juho Kuosmanen: ‘Steal from many different places and you can’t get caught!’

by David Jenkins

The director of Compartment No. 6 on the joys of filming on location – in this case, a vintage passenger train.
Review

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

by David Jenkins

This magnificent mid-century memory piece from Richard Linklater is up there with the director’s finest films.

3
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

by David Jenkins

Dashed-off sequel to the 2020 hit which makes the Chipmunks films look like Tarkovsky by comparison.

1
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
Review

Long Live My Happy Head

by David Jenkins

Austen McCowan and Will Hewitt’s warmly moving portrait of a lovestruck comic artist with an inoperable brain tumour.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
In Praise Of

Scene Stealers: Dinner at the end of the world in Don’t Look Up

by David Jenkins

Members of the LWLies team write on their favourite moments from the 2022 Best Picture contenders.

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