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Interviews

Jafar Panahi: ‘We shouldn't look at cinema too idealistically’

by Marina Ashioti

The great Iranian auteur and winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or on his thrilling new morality play, It Was Just an Accident.
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In Praise Of

Female friendship and rebellion: Nana at 20

by Roda Musa

Twenty years ago, two wildly different women with the same name got on a train to Tokyo and changed the lives of teen girls everywhere. 
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Acting Up

The Enigmatic Versatility of Ethan Hawke

by Ryan Finnigan

In praise of the ultra-versatile actor ahead of his stunning character turn in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon.
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In Praise Of

Rage and defiance in les banlieues – La Haine at 30

by Julie Hrischeva

As Mathieu Kassovitz’s cult thriller turns 30, its pertinence and influence continue to reverberate across our own uncertain times.
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Opinion

The euphoric pleasures of movies and football

by Oscar Aitchison

How attending Brighton and Hove Albion games with my father delivers a similar hit to seeing Jeanne Dielman at the BFI Southbank.
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In Praise Of

What Night of the Comet Taught Me About the End of the World

by Ariana Martinez

Thom Eberhardt’s counter-culture classic from 1984 is a poem to doomed youth.
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This Just In

Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of Stanley Kubrick

by Marshall Shaffer

Kubrickian echoes reverberate throughout the Greek filmmaker’s oeuvre. With Bugonia, those connections are shaped into a singular package that transcends the sum of its homages.
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Interviews

Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I can’

by Hannah Strong

One of Britain’s most iconic and beloved directors on her striking new film, Die My Love, and why she is drawn to extreme material.
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In Praise Of

Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns

by Esmé Holden

Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
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Interviews

Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart, but you carry on’

by Hannah Strong

Going face to face writer/​director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally create the film he has always wanted to make.

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