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David Byrne and the autistic euphoria of Stop Making Sense

by Raine Petrie

As an anniversary restoration of Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads’ landmark concert film hits cinemas, it remains a landmark in autistic representation on screen.
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The enduring joy of Dick Cavett’s Old Hollywood interviews

by Sarah Cleary

Stars including Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson appeared on Dick Cavett’s seminal American talk show – a reminder that the televised interview is something of a lost art.
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How Saving Private Ryan changed the war movie

by Sam Moore

Twenty-five years on, Steven Spielberg’s World War Two epic completely revolutionised the way Hollywood thought about depicting conflict on screen.
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Why I love the lesbian documentaries of the 1990s

by Lucy Talbot Allen

Filmmakers including Barbara Hammer and Karen Everett explore various facets of lesbian culture in their unabashed, lo-fi films, celebrating the defiant acts of queer joy and activism.
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Portrait of the journalist as a young grifter: Shattered Glass at 20

by Kyle Turner

Billy Ray’s 2003 thriller about a young journalist who fabricated stories for The New Republic is a curious relic two decades on, with an undercurrent of homoerotic tension.
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Oldboy and the aesthetics of national trauma

by Anabelle Johnston

As Park Chan-wook’s seminal revenge thriller turns 20, it remains one of South Korean cinema’s most piercing political indictments.
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Exploring Ousmane Sembène’s activist cinema at 100

by Henry Roberts

A new BFI season highlights the incredible cinematic legacy of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, who saw film as a tool to bring power to the people.
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American Graffiti and the lasting impact of nostalgia on cinema

by Daniel Allen

Half a century on, George Lucas’s seminal teen movie casts a long shadow across both the coming-of-age genre and filmmaker autofiction.
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The uplifting, transformative coming-of-age cinema of Greta Gerwig

by Mallory Blair

A writer reflects on how watching Greta Gerwig’s Little Women led to a life-changing revelation, and the comfort found in her cinema of girlhood.
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The hero dies at the beginning: Enter the Dragon at 50

by Micah Nathan

The film that introduced Bruce Lee to the American mainstream was sadly his last – but its power is still palpable five decades later.

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