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Features

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This Just In

The Crip Cinema Archive wants to change the way we think about disability in film

by Hannah Strong

Founded by Emily Simmons, this new project aims to provide an inclusive resource about the past, present and future of disability on and off screen.
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Interviews

Luca Guadagnino: ‘I don’t watch tennis matches. It’s quite boring to me’

by David Jenkins

We catch up with the Italian provocateur behind Challengers: the sports drama starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, that’s getting pulses raising around the world this spring.
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Festivals

Bodies in motion: a report from CPH:DOX 2024

by Savina Petkova

One of the world’s most important documentary festival delivers a host of very fine films as well as some flim-flammy political statements.
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Festivals

Here’s what it’s like to be part of programming a film festival

by Madeleine Storer

How do programmers assess films for a festival selection? We find out from one of the Oxford University Student Film Festival team.
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Festivals

Cannes Film Festival 2024: the full line-up

by David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France’s première film jamboree.
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Home Ents

What to watch at home in April

by Anton Bitel

An Ozu classic, a wrestling comedy and a Portuguese mystery about strange astronaut-themed dreams are among our picks out on streaming and home ents this month.
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Festivals

My First Film – first-look review

by Savina Petkova

In her intriguing debut feature, director Zia Anger attempts to exorcise the ghost of a long-abandoned filmmaking venture.
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Interviews

Victor Erice: ‘Cinema is a form of destiny’

by David Jenkins

On the occasion of his highly anticipated and long-awaited fourth feature film, we receive an audience with the master of Spanish cinema, who reflects on the long journey that Close Your Eyes had.
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Two Road Houses, unalike in dignity

by Daniel Schindel

How did Patrick Swayze get it so right and Jake Gyllenhaal get it so wrong? We investigate the limits of 80s nostalgia and fragile masculinity.
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Incoming

Fancy winning a neon sign used in The Souvenir Part 2?

by Little White Lies

Cinema for Gaza is hosting a charity auction raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) with incredible prizes donated by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Josh O’Connor, Harris Dickinson, Annie Lennox, Mike Leigh and many, many more.