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Features

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Interviews

Shatner’s Bassoon: Michael Cumming on the making of Brass Eye

by Adam Woodward

The direc­tor of the orig­i­nal series dis­cuss­es its cre­ation and lega­cy ahead of a new tour of his cult behind-the-scenes film, Oxide Ghosts.
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Festivals

When Fall Is Coming – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This light­weight Chabro­lian coun­try dra­ma from François Ozon sees an elder­ly retiree with a com­plex past try­ing to do right by her family.
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Festivals

Emmanuelle – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Audrey Diwan’s take on the infa­mous erot­ic French nov­el is a chilly, bemus­ing affair that lacks for a sense of real purpose.
Two people, a man and a woman, together in a lush, green forest.
Festivals

The Serpent’s Path – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s third film of 2024 is a French-lan­guage remake of his own 1998 fea­ture about a grim, cycli­cal revenge mission.
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Festivals

I Am Nevenka – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Icíar Bollaín’s tabloidy but worth­while #MeToo dra­ma tells of a vic­tim of sex­u­al abuse with­in Spain’s local polit­i­cal scene.
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Inside Atlas Cinema, the space democratising film exhibition

by Rógan Graham

Nes­tled beneath a rail­way arch in Brix­ton, a group of cura­tors and com­mu­ni­ty activists come togeth­er to share cin­e­ma free of pro­hib­i­tive tick­et prices and think beyond the con­straints of the British film industry.
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Interviews

Shuchi Talati: ‘I grew up in a context where there was so much shame around female sexuality’

by Leila Latif

The writer/​director of lilt­ing com­ing-of-age yarn, Girls Will be Girls, stress­es the impor­tance of cap­tur­ing human inti­ma­cy with an air of authenticity.
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Why is English-language cinema so obsessed with remakes?

by Anita Markoff

As a new ver­sion of Chris­t­ian Tafdrup’s chill­ing 2022 hor­ror Speak No Evil hits cin­e­mas, we explore the cult of the Angli­cised remake.
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Interviews

Carol Kane: ’I feel very old and very young at the same time‘

by Nick Newman

The act­ing leg­end and star of Between the Tem­ples shoots the breeze on act­ing your age, keep­ing artis­ti­cal­ly active, and being super cre­ative with John and Gena.
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Festivals

Nightbitch – first-look review

by Jourdain Searles

Amy Adams is on great form in Marielle Heller’s adap­ta­tion of Rachel Yoder’s nov­el about a new moth­er who is alarmed dis­cov­er she is turn­ing into a dog.