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The New Bootlegs: Open Matte Films & Unofficial Scans

by Lexie Corbett

The unof­fi­cial, often open mat­te scans of these films pre­serve a tac­tile his­to­ry of cin­e­ma in its imper­fect totality.
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The politics of longing in the cinema of Nicholas Sparks

by Anna McKibbin

With­in the wild­ly suc­cess­ful movies adapt­ed from Sparks’ best­selling nov­els, there’s a for­mu­la for roman­tic success.
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Interviews

Margaret Qualley and Mamadou Athie: ‘A Yorgos film is much more dreamy and surreal when you’re in it’

by Hannah Strong

Two rel­a­tive new­com­ers to Team Lan­thi­mos reflect on learn­ing to trust the process.
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Interviews

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’

by Hannah Strong

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau lay out the par­tic­u­lars of Yor­gos Lanthimos’s method with actors.
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Interviews

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons: ‘Is Yorgos okay with us giving away the secrets?’

by Hannah Strong

Emma Stone and Jesse Ple­mons attempt to deci­pher the codes and mean­ings in Kinds of Kindness.
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Interviews

Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou: ‘It’s a constant relationship’

by Hannah Strong

The co-writ­ers of Kinds of Kind­ness reflect on their endur­ing part­ner­ship and putting their char­ac­ters through the ringer.
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In Praise Of

Shopping ’til you drop: Paul W.S. Anderson’s anarchic debut at 30

by Fran Bowden

Three decades on from its release, this 90s thriller echoes the dis­en­fran­chise­ment of young peo­ple and sen­sa­tion­al­i­sa­tion of shoplifting.
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Home Ents

What to watch at home in June

by Anton Bitel

A maligned VR pio­neer, a Pow­ell and Press­burg­er gem and an Ital­ian foot­ball thriller are head­ed for home ents this month.
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Interviews

Jeff Nichols: ‘It’s a very intoxicating thing, riding on a bike’

by Hannah Strong

After get­ting his motor­cy­cle license and pon­der­ing the sto­ry for two decades, the direc­tor of The Bik­erid­ers explains what drew him to Dan­ny Lyon’s icon­ic pho­to­book doc­u­ment­ing the lives of a 1960s motor­cy­cle gang.
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The possibilities (and problems) of Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional

by Shyal Bhandari

A state-fund­ed cin­e­ma and archive, the Cinete­ca Nacional is a beau­ti­ful exam­ple of a pub­lic arts space – but is it for the few, rather than the many?