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Features

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Incoming

Joaquin Phoenix reads a bedtime story in the first trailer for C’mon C’mon

by Charles Bramesco

He looks after his precocious young nephew in writer/​director Mike Mills’ tender family drama.
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Festivals

Why Sarah Maldoror remains one of cinema’s greatest revolutionaries

by Pamela Hutchinson

The late filmmaker and poet was a pioneer of anti-colonial cinema, whose cry for freedom still resonates today.
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Festivals

Old Henry – first-look review

by Steph Green

Potsy Ponciroli’s defiantly old school oater is a modest treat with a barnstorming turn from Tim Blake Nelson.
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Incoming

Jake Gyllenhaal races against time in the first trailer for The Guilty

by Charles Bramesco

Antoine Fuqua directs this remake of the hit Danish thriller about an emergency responder who receives a disturbing call.
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In Praise Of

20 years on, Lan Yu remains the pinnacle of Chinese queer cinema

by Weiting Liu

Though never released in mainland china Stanley Kwan’s cult 2001 melodrama fully deserves its cult status.
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Interviews

Sam Spruell: ‘We had to leave set when the polar bears arrived’

by Adam Woodward

The British character actor talks toxic masculinity and filming in sub-zero temperatures for Andrew Haigh’s The North Water.
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Festivals

The 2021 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced

by Adam Woodward

This year’s LFF programme comprises 39 per cent female and 40 per cent ethnically diverse directors/​creators.
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Festivals

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Ana Lily Amirpour returns with a blissed-out, techno-powered riff on the time-honoured superhero movie.
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Festivals

L’Événement – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Audrey Divan’s lacerating and necessary drama follows a young student seeking a clandestine abortion in 1960s France.
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Festivals

Lost Illusions – first-look review

by Adam Solomons

Xavier Giannoli’s pristine adaptation of Balzac’s ​‘Illusions Perdues’ is a raunchy romp through post-Revolution France.