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Features

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Partnership

The Decadent Splendour of The Great Beauty

by Leonardo Goi

Pao­lo Sorrentino’s Felli­ni-esque jour­ney through mod­ern-day Rome trans­forms the Eter­nal City into a liv­ing, breath­ing char­ac­ter of unpar­al­leled grandeur.
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Festivals

Temporal Sensibilities: Queering timelines and nostalgia

by Yuki Yoshikawa, Pear Nual­lak

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, our sec­ond pair from the Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their thoughts on this year’s programme.
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In Praise Of

Before Sunrise and the ultimate intimacy

by Jess Furseth

This year marks the 30th anniver­sary of Jesse and Céline meet­ing in Vien­na with no phones, no pho­tos, and no future. Richard Lin­klater’s roman­tic com­e­dy about their intense atten­tion has nev­er looked more attractive.
Illustration of a smiling Daisy-May Hudson by Judith P. Raynault
Interviews

Daisy-May Hudson: ‘I want to make films that crack people’s hearts open’

by Katherine McLaughlin

The ambigu­ous and some­times trag­ic nature of moth­er­hood is the sub­ject of writer/​director Daisy-May Hudson’s force­ful debut, Lollipop.
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Partnership

The Dreamworld Aesthetic of 8½

by Christina Newland

Through its vision­ary cin­e­matog­ra­phy and cos­tume design, Fed­eri­co Fellini’s 1963 film mas­ter­ful­ly blurs the lines between mem­o­ry, real­i­ty and fantasy.
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Festivals

This Must Be the Place: A Queer East Correspondence

by Qinghan Chen, Lydia Leung

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, this year’s Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their respons­es to the film programme.
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Partnership

Introducing… La Dolce Vita: A Celebration of Italian Screen Style

by Little White Lies

This sum­mer we’re invit­ing you to indulge in a slice of the sweet life with Disaronno.
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Festivals

Resurrection – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Bi Gan’s third fea­ture is an epic in every sense of the word, tak­ing view­ers on a sprawl­ing odyssey through cinema.
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Festivals

The Mastermind – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

An art theft spells dis­as­ter for Josh O’Con­nor in Kel­ly Reichardt’s excel­lent Viet­nam-era heist dramedy.
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Interviews

Wes Anderson: ‘You’re hoping for the right accident’

by Hannah Strong

We speak to the mas­ter­mind behind The Phoeni­cian Scheme about fam­i­ly, fathers-in-law, and the great, grand plan of all things Wes Anderson.