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Show and Tell: Inside The Exhibition Highlighting The Art of Storyboarding

by Vincent Leung

A new exhibition in Milan sheds light on the multiplicity of collaborative processes in the filmmaking world through the preliminary drawings developed for Psycho, Train to Busan, Wings of Desire and beyond.
Cluttered bookshelves filled with DVDs, CDs, and other media in a dimly lit room with posters and memorabilia on the walls.

I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today: The Video Shop at the End of the World

by Daisy Steinhardt

Tucked away on a narrow street in Bristol, an Aladdin’s cave of DVDs persists despite the odds. For one employee, it’s the Hotel California of video shops.
Wooden statues of two bears on a wooden deck, with trees and foliage in the background.
Review

Flow review – cat’s entertainment

by Hannah Strong

A small grey cat embarks on a big adventure in Gints Zilbalodis’ charming Oscar winner.

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Four people sitting outdoors, two men in casual clothing and hats, one woman wearing a hat, and another man wearing sunglasses.
Review

All Happy Families review – a sweet reckoning with family strife

by David Jenkins

This well-mounted ensemble comedy sees a schlubby Josh Radnor forced to deal with a visit from his eccentric parents and brother.

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Silhouette of adult and child against blurred lights
Review

The Rule Of Jenny Pen review – a stand-out ageing horror

by Billie Walker

A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft’s effective horror.

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Two people, an elderly man in a dark suit and a young woman in a grey jumper, standing in a dimly lit room with various decorations.
Review

Opus review – off-key pop industry satire misses all its cues

by David Jenkins

John Malkovich is an electro pop god with an axe to grind in this glossy music industry horror-satire by debut director Mark Anthony Green

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Truth & Movies podcast episode cover: Red text on orange background, with a collage of three movie stills featuring a woman in a trench coat, two people outdoors, and a person in casual clothes.
Podcast

Black Bag + Cate Blanchett & Steven Soderbergh | Opus | Thessaloniki Film Festival | Under The Silver Lake (2018)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss the taut thriller Black Bag and spoke to its star Cate Blanchett and director Steven Soderbergh. We also review A24’s latest horror movie Opus, hear the latest from the Thessaloniki Film Festival and finally, for film club, revisit the surrealist neo-noir Under The Silver Lake.
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Review

Sister Midnight review – a droll, strange, cool freak of a film

by Anton Bitel

Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight.

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Older man in beige suit standing near video equipment in a studio setting.
In Praise Of

Remembering Souleymane Cissé: An Uncompromising Pioneer of African Cinema

by Nadira Begum

A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé’s cinema of imagination changed the world.
Segregation sign on building stating "Net blankes. Whites only. Net nie-blankes" and two men standing on steps, one holding a bicycle.
Review

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – a vital piece of cine-portraiture

by Lucy Peters

Filmmaker Raoul Peck unearths the searing social realist photographs of an artist whose work was thought to be lost.

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