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Features

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Festivals

Red Rooms – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Pascal Plante presents a piercing take on true crime in this austere, affecting psychological thriller.
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In Praise Of

Why I love the train chase scene in The Wrong Trousers

by Eleanor Brady

Tom Cruise and Marvel can’t hold a candle to Aardman Animation’s nail-biting stop animation sequence in the classic Wallace and Gromit adventure.
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Festivals

Fremont – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young Afghan immigrant finds herself adrift in San Francisco in Babak Jalali’s poetic fourth feature.
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Home Ents

What to watch at home in July

by Anton Bitel

Two Altman gems, a killer shark and an assassin-for-hire are among the best films hitting streaming and physical media this month.
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Interviews

Inside the wild world of film-to-book novelisations

by Melita Cameron-Wood

Alan Dean Foster, who has adapted the likes of Alien and Star Wars for the page, explains the highly specific art of transforming sci-fi epics into page-turners.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest

Here’s what it’s like to pitch your film idea at a festival

by Rupert Clague

One filmmaker shares his experiment of pitching a project at Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket, which connects artists with a variety of people who might be able to help them realise their dream.
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In Praise Of

The Counselor was Cormac McCarthy’s unflinching portrait of the consequences of desire

by Evan Helmlinger

In his only produced screenplay, the American titan of literature painted a bleak picture of the logical endpoint of greed.
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In Praise Of

Why I love The Watermelon Woman

by Robyn Quick

Cheryl Dunye’s debut feature broke the mould with its witty blend of fact and fiction – and remains a queer classic to this day.
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Interviews

Jason Schwartzman: ‘Working with Wes so long, it really has become like we’re brothers’

by Hannah Strong

The long-time collaborator and star of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City speaks on their enduring friendship, Stanley Kubrick, and learning to talk without moving your mouth.
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In Praise Of

In defence of The Bling Ring

by Katie Tobin

A decade since its release, Sofia Coppola’s take on teen thieves and celebrity obsession is as sharp as ever.