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Interviews

Joshua Oppenheimer: ‘The End is an artefact of barbarism’

by Lucy Peters

How the doc mae­stro turned his hand to (musi­cal!) fic­tion in his com­pelling and sin­gu­lar new film, The End.
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The painful truths of Girl, Interrupted

by Billie Walker

Cel­e­brat­ing its 25th anniver­sary, James Man­gold’s adap­ta­tion of Susan­na Kay­sen’s mem­oir about her men­tal ill­ness isn’t per­fect – but there’s a rea­son it still res­onates with young women.
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Show and Tell: Inside The Exhibition Highlighting The Art of Storyboarding

by Vincent Leung

A new exhi­bi­tion in Milan sheds light on the mul­ti­plic­i­ty of col­lab­o­ra­tive process­es in the film­mak­ing world through the pre­lim­i­nary draw­ings devel­oped for Psy­cho, Train to Busan, Wings of Desire and beyond.
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I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today: The Video Shop at the End of the World

by Daisy Steinhardt

Tucked away on a nar­row street in Bris­tol, an Aladdin’s cave of DVDs per­sists despite the odds. For one employ­ee, it’s the Hotel Cal­i­for­nia of video shops.
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In Praise Of

Remembering Souleymane Cissé: An Uncompromising Pioneer of African Cinema

by Nadira Begum

A trail­blaz­er on the glob­al cin­e­ma stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souley­mane Cis­sé’s cin­e­ma of imag­i­na­tion changed the world.
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This Just In

Severed, Reprinted, Impersonated: The Rise of Cinema’s ‘Work Double’

by Gayle Sequeira

A spate of recent works are pon­der­ing the con­cept of repli­cat­ing or sep­a­rat­ing one­self in response to our increas­ing­ly eco­nom­i­cal­ly per­ilous world.
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Not Movies

What on Earth is The Show About the Show?

by Daniel Glassman

Caveh Zahe­di counts Gre­ta Ger­wig and the Safdie Broth­ers among his admir­ers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawl­ing as his all-con­sum­ing mag­num opus?
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Club LWLies Exclusive

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?
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Video

Watch: Bong Joon Ho on Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson’s ‘joke’ accent and his favourite creatures

by Hannah Strong

We catch up with one of our all-time favourite film­mak­ers about his sci-fi caper and cre­at­ing crois­sant-like creatures.
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In Praise Of

The radical DIY miracle of Marble Ass

by Fedor Tot

Born out of Bel­grade’s under­ground scene in 1995, Želimir Žil­nik’s cel­e­bra­tion of a tight-knit com­mu­ni­ty of sex work­ers has a par­tic­u­lar pow­er in today’s increas­ing­ly divid­ed society.