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Festivals

Don’t miss this scintillating survey of the best new Russian cinema

by Little White Lies

The bursting programme for the 2021 Russian Film Festival is available to all on the BFI Player.
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Home Ents

Discover this cult Euro crime thriller from Umberto Lenzi

by Anton Bitel

The maverick Italian director’s 1976 film Free Hand for a Tough Cop is now available in the UK for the first time.
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Sponsored

The photo illustrator constructing her own offbeat visual worlds

by Little White Lies

Artist Vanessa McKeown shines a light on her unique creative process. In partnership with Adobe Creator Collective.
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Festivals

Is it time to retire the term “documentary”?

by David Jenkins

The annual Frames of Representation festival at London’s ICA cinema makes the case for film as a more inclusive medium.
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Review

Lapwing

by David Jenkins

An atmospheric tale of toxic masculinity in Tudor England from writer Laura Turner and director Philip Stevens.

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3
In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Why I love Rachel Weisz’s performance in The Deep Blue Sea

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

In Terence Davies’ postwar melodrama, she turns Hester Collyer into one of cinema’s great tragic heroines.
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Review

The Beatles: Get Back

by Elena Lazic

Peter Jackson unearths and re-edits footage of the Beatles’ last hurrah, with euphoric and exasperating results.

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4
In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Why 49th Parallel is one of the most cunning war films ever made

by Sam Manning

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger employed propaganda to potent effect in their 1941 submarine drama.
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Review

Rebel Dykes

by Marina Ashioti

This fittingly radical documentary chronicles the feminist punk subculture which sprung in London in the 1980s.

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4
In Retrospect
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Review

Pirates

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

Reggie Yates’ London-set, Y2K-era debut feature is a rollicking celebration of friendship and Black British music.

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In Retrospect