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Festivals

Animal instincts at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival

by Hannah Strong

One of the most well-regarded documentary film festivals provides a fascinating insight into the grip that animal stories have over the documentary space.
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Opinion

What makes a rock doc worthwhile?

by Ralph Greco, Jr

It seems as though a new documentary about a legendary band pops up every week – but what separates the wheat from the chaff?
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Hard Craft

Role Credits: Inside the world of Dan Perri

by Ralph Jones

Dan Perri, the man behind some of the film world’s most iconic credits sequences, reflects on half a century of his work.
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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?