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Features

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Festivals

Klokkenluider – first-look review

by Josh Slater-Williams

Actor Neil Maskell makes his debut as a filmmaker with this spiky thriller.
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Interviews

Anthony Marra: ‘For every Billy Wilder there is someone like Bertolt Brecht’

by Ben Nicholson

In his first novel since being named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2017, Anthony Marra turns his attention to old Hollywood.
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Festivals

Women Talking – first-look review

by Saffron Maeve

A group of women meet in secret to discuss escaping their abusive, isolated colony in Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Towes’ novel.
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Festivals

I Love My Dad – first-look review

by Callie Petch

A father impersonates a young woman online in a bid to get closer to his son in James Morosini’s promising but frustrating debut.
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Festivals

A Cooler Climate – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

James Ivory reminisces about a youthful year spent in Afghanistan with this cozy archival documentary.
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Masters of Suspense: On Park Chan-wook’s love of Alfred Hitchcock

by David Jenkins

Decision to Leave reframes the blueprint of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but it’s not the first time Park Chan-wook has looked back to this classic-era muse.
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Festivals

My Father’s Dragon – first-look review

by Callie Petch

Cartoon Saloon return with a poignant tale of a boy who sets out on a quest to find a dragon in peril.
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Festivals

Walk Up – first-look review

by Weiting Liu

A filmmaker and his estranged daughter visit an old friend in Hong Sang-soo’s latest riff on the connection between art and romance.
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Incoming

Pope of trash John Waters will return to directing with an adaptation of his own novel

by Charles Bramesco

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance marks Waters’ first time behind the camera in 18 years.
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Festivals

Mutzenbacher – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Ruth Beckermann enlists a hundred men to read passages from the controversial 19th century novel Josefine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore.