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Interviews

Thelma Schoonmaker: ‘Powell left a little furnace burning inside of me’

by Lillian Crawford

Ahead of the BFI’s landmark Powell & Pressburger retrospective, the legendary film editor speaks about her relationship with Michael Powell, the process of restoring film, and how Powell & Pressburger influenced Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Interviews

Misan Harriman: “There is grace in the process of having open wounds.”

by David Jenkins

The famed photographer turns his hand at filmmaking with a study of extreme trauma and slow healing in The After.
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Not Movies

Inside the strange, enthusiastic world of YouTube’s fake trailer community

by Kyle MacNeill

For the last decade, a small group of video editors have spent hours toiling over concept trailers, delighting and duping fans eager to catch a sneak peek of an upcoming film.
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Festivals

Chasing Chasing Amy – first-look review

by Soma Ghosh

Sav Rodgers weaves personal and pop culture history together as he unpacks the legacy of Kevin Smith’s 1997 romantic comedy.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework

by Nadine Mamoon

More than three decades after it was made, this landmark work defies classification – a portrait of young people caught between warring countries, attempting to have a typical childhood.
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Festivals

Janet Planet – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Annie Baker’s debut feature about a mother and daughter is magical and assured drama that announces the Pulitzer Prize winner as a filmmaking talent as well as a literary one.
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Festivals

Green Border – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland offers a stirring, stark depiction of the refugee situation in Europe, as Syrians fleeing war face harrowing interrogation at the Polish-Belarusian border.
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In Praise Of

Michael Bay’s American Nightmare: Bad Boys II at 20

by Olivia Hunter Willke

Two decades on, Michael Bay’s nihilistic, hyper-violent police drama serves as a state of the union address.
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Festivals

Baltimore – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Imogen Poots shines in this angular, fragmented portrait of English rose-turned-firebrand activist Rose Dugdale from Irish filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy.
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Festivals

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Raven Jackson’s feature debut announces a striking visual talent, following the story of a young woman’s life in rural Mississippi.