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Features

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Interviews

Barry Keoghan: ‘I have my own method; I’m still learning and discovering’

by David Jenkins

The role of charis­mat­ic chancer Bug in Andrea Arnold’s Bird feels like a vic­to­ry lap for Hol­ly­wood’s most unlike­ly new darling.
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Interviews

Andrea Arnold: ‘I’m very interested in the sensual world’

by Nia Childs

One of Britain’s fore­most chron­i­clers of life in the eco­nom­ic mar­gins opens up about the pres­sures of mod­ern film­mak­ing and her desire to let audi­ences take what they want from her films.
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Festivals

Missing Child Videotape – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Kon­do Ryota’s debut fea­ture is a chill­ing ghost sto­ry that begins with a video­tape – but that’s where the sim­i­lar­i­ties to Ringu end in this impres­sive new J‑Horror.
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Inside the fight to make Audio Description a non-negotiable part of the film industry

by Emma Cieslik

A cru­cial tool for visu­al­ly impaired cin­e­ma lovers yet often under­val­ued by the indus­try, it’s about time that audio descrip­tion’s worth is heard.
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Festivals

Teki Cometh – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

An elder­ly man plans the final year of his life in Dai­hachi Yoshi­da’s impres­sive adap­ta­tion of Yasu­ta­ka Tsut­sui’s novel.
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Festivals

Route 29 – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A stand­off­ish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusu­al 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Mori­i’s off­beat sopho­more feature.
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Festivals

11 Rebels – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Kazuya Shi­raishi pol­ish­es off a 60-year-old script for this blood­thirsty samu­rai epic about a band of crim­i­nals recruit­ed to defend a cas­tle from the emper­or’s army dur­ing the Boshin War.
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Can watching porn in public change perceptions of sex work?

by Billie Walker

Eri­ka Lust’s C*m With Me tour cel­e­brates 20 years of the film­mak­er’s work, but how can wel­com­ing porn back into cin­e­mas chal­lenge audi­ence attitudes?
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In Praise Of

In praise of Stan Brakhage’s most disturbing film document

by Tyler Thier

This Hal­loween, no body hor­ror fic­tion can com­pare to the haunt­ing rev­e­la­tions of Brakhage’s 32-minute film The Act of See­ing with One’s Own Eyes.
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Interviews

‘I watched the film crash and burn at the box office’ – Jang Joon-hwan on Save The Green Planet!

by James Balmont

The direc­tor of the cult clas­sic Kore­an wave sci-fi com­e­dy reflects on his wild debut two decades on, and the forth­com­ing remake from Yor­gos Lanthimos.