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Features

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Interviews

Takehide Hori: ‘Everything started from my misunderstanding’

by Kambole Campbell

The writer, director, set designer, puppet builder, animator, composer and actor behind the dystopian stop-motion epic Junk Head discusses how he created a film almost single-handedly.
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Interviews

Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch: ‘Siblings can be close, but this is a whole other level of codependency’

by Rafa Sales Ross

Actress and producer Rachel Weisz and writer Alice Birch lift the lid on their reimagining of David Cronenberg’s chilling twin thriller.
Interviews

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: ‘You just try to live in a way that minimises your reprehensibility’

by Charles Bramesco

The team behind the explosive eco-thriller How to Blow Up A Pipeline reflect on the nature of activism, living under capitalism and spurring audiences out of inertia.
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“I modelled the movie off of Broadcast News” – Jason Segel on Forgetting Sarah Marshall at 15

by Simon Bland

Writer and star Jason Segel spills on the naked real-life inspirations and upcoming small-screen future of his heartbreak-based modern comedy classic.
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Festivals

The Director’s Fortnight and Critic’s Week sidebars bolster a packed Cannes

by Charles Bramesco

Films from Michel Gondry, Manoel de Oliveira, and a slew of newcomers will play alongside the Official Selection announced last week.
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In Praise Of

The thunder and the fury of The Place Beyond the Pines

by Gayle Sequeira

A decade since its release, Derek Cianfrance’s thriller about the intersecting lives of two young men in small-town America still stings.
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Home Ents

A troubled filmmaker goes through hell in Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato

by Anton Bitel

This 1979 Spanish arthouse film, being rereleased by Radiance, is a fascinating, tricky cult horror.
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In Praise Of

The daring gender nonconformity of Ed Wood’s Glen or Glenda

by Sarah Cleary

As Ed Wood’s exploitation film partly based on his own experience celebrates its 70th anniversary, its progressive take on performing gender is ripe for rediscovery.
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In Praise Of

Is Léa Seydoux Mia Hansen-Løve’s greatest on-screen muse?

by David Jenkins

The French superstar works in a sublimely subtle register to bring the joy and pain of One Fine Morning to the screen.
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Festivals

Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Glazer, and Wes Anderson lead the 2023 Cannes Film Festival lineup

by Charles Bramesco

The Competition selection also includes new works from Catherine Breillat and Todd Haynes.