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Features

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Interviews

Don Hertzfeldt on It’s Such a Beautiful Day at 10

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A dialogue with the humble, perspicacious and very funny director of one of the film masterpieces of the 21st century.
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Interviews

Lena Dunham: ‘It was like we were all getting PhDs in Medieval history’

by Emma Fraser

The filmmaker, writer and actor talks about the long journey to adapt the medieval coming-of-age dramedy Catherine, Called Birdy.
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Festivals

Bruiser – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Miles Warren explores the dichotomy of nature vs nurture through a lost teenager’s longing for paternal guidance.
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Festivals

Prisoner’s Daughter – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Brian Cox plays a dying convict trying to free himself from the prison of his past through forgiveness of his daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s formulaic family drama.
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Not Movies

Reckoning with the ghoulish visual spectacle of the Queen’s funeral

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sophie Monks Kaufman reflects on the cinematic elements and pomp and circumstance surrounding the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Incoming

Answer the door, it’s the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin

by Charles Bramesco

The suspense master’s latest is a horror twofer — a home-invasion film and an apocalypse film.
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Festivals

Something You Said Last Night – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Luis De Filippis’ film is a great addition to a transgender cinematic canon in that it refuses to rely on overt explorations of trauma.
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Festivals

1976 – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

This searingly intense character study sees a woman questioning her cosy bourgeois lifestyle in Pinochet’s Chile.
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In Praise Of

The enduring atmosphere of Road to Perdition

by Nick Herrmann

Two decades on from its release, Sam Mendes’ mob thriller exudes a powerful sense of dread.
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Interviews

The art of adapting short films into feature-length movies

by Marina Ashioti

Eddie Sternberg discusses the risks and challenges of expanding his 2015 short into a feature-length film.