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Review

Give Me Pity! review – an experimental, esoteric extravaganza

by Marina Ashioti

A young woman’s dream gig on television descends into chaos in Amanda Kramer’s imaginative new melodrama.

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When is a not queer film queer?

by Soma Ghosh

Whether it’s films produced under the constrictions of the Hays Code or hetero romance that lifts from gay culture, there’s a whole canon of cinema which has been embraced by queer cinephiles.
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Review

Dream Scenario review – easy to enjoy, harder to remember

by Mark Asch

Nicolas Cage plays an otherwise unremarkable college professor who unexpectedly finds himself appearing in peoples’ dreams in Kristoffer Borgli’s latest satire.

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Interviews

Tarsem Singh: ‘I went bankrupt making The Fall, and I’d go bankrupt another ten times to do it’

by Christina Newland

The visionary Indian director behind modern cult favourite The Fall reflects on the film finding its audience after 17 years, and the production of Dear Jassi – his first feature film in almost a decade.
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In Praise Of

Green Snake and the search for belonging in a hostile world

by Xuanlin Tham

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Tsui Hark’s take on a Chinese folktale is a breathtaking allegory for our inhospitable world.
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Review

Bottoms review – undercooked, unfunny teen romance

by Hannah Strong

Two unpopular lesbians attempt to start a fight club at their high school in Emma Seligman’s disappointing follow-up to Shiva Baby.

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This Just In

Taking Up Space: cinematic adventures in male-dominated sports

by Nora Murphy

Emma Seligman’s Bottoms promises a queer female fight club – how does it perform in the canon of films about women carving out space for themselves in hyper-masculine worlds?
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Anatomy Of A Fall + Sandra Hüller | The Royal Hotel + Kitty Green | How To Have Sex

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall and host Leila Latif interviewed its star Sandra Hüller. Then we take a look at The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green’s dark tale of two backpackers in the Australian Outback, and we also spoke to the director about her film. Finally, we review another complex look at womanhood in How To Have Sex. 
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Review

On the Adamant review – A hushed, humanistic, prize-winning doc

by David Jenkins

French documentarian Nicolas Philibert returns with a gentle, deeply moving chronicle of a floating hospital in Paris.

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Review

The Royal Hotel review – harrowing, but doesn’t burrow under the skin

by Mark Asch

More cinema of ominous discomfort from Kitty Green as she takes us to an out-of-the-way Australian boozer for some low-boiling violence.

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