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Interviews

Victor Erice: ‘Cinema is a form of destiny’

by David Jenkins

On the occa­sion of his high­ly antic­i­pat­ed and long-await­ed fourth fea­ture film, we receive an audi­ence with the mas­ter of Span­ish cin­e­ma, who reflects on the long jour­ney that Close Your Eyes had.
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Review

Close Your Eyes review – Erice only deals in masterworks

by David Jenkins

The leg­endary Span­ish film­mak­er returns with his first fea­ture film in 32 years, which cen­tres on the strange case of an actor who dis­ap­peared under mys­te­ri­ous circumstances.

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In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

How 10 Things I Hate About You made Shakespeare hot property

by Nadira Begum

25 years ago, Gil Junger’s spiky teen romance rein­vent­ed The Tam­ing of the Shrew – and made Shake­speare cool again.
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Review

Immaculate review – get thee to a different nunnery

by Hannah Strong

Syd­ney Sweeney plays a pious young nun who finds her­self unex­pect­ed­ly expect­ing in Michael Mohan’s slight­ly under­whelm­ing take on the nun­spoil­ta­tion movie.

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In Retrospect
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This Just In

How fanfiction took over the film world

by Rehana Nurmahi

With the lead char­ac­ter of The Idea of You bear­ing a strik­ing resem­blance to Har­ry Styles, we take a look at the rel­a­tive­ly recent his­to­ry of Wattpad and fan­fic­tion-based films tak­ing over the box office.
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Review

The New Boy review – an ambitious undertaking by one of Australia’s best

by Charles Bramesco

A young arrival at an Aus­tralian nun­nery begins to exhib­it unusu­al pow­ers in War­wick Thorn­ton’s fan­tas­ti­cal drama.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Monster review – heartfelt and likably earnest

by Charles Bramesco

The rela­tion­ship between two young school­boys has ram­i­fi­ca­tions for their local com­mu­ni­ty in the new dra­ma from Hirokazu Koreeda.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Banel & Adama review – gorgeous but frustrating cinema as fairytale

by Fatima Sheriff

A young cou­ple’s romance threat­ens the future of their vil­lage in Rama­ta-Toulaye Sy’s visu­al­ly stun­ning but under­de­vel­oped drama.

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In Retrospect
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Events

What might a more inclusive film programming world look like?

by Lillian Crawford

Lil­lian Craw­ford and her fel­low Bar­bi­can Young Pro­gram­mers reflect on their expe­ri­ences of curat­ing film events and hopes for a more inclu­sive film pro­gram­ming community.
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Review

Four Daughters review – successfully bypasses the traps of the gratuitous

by Rafa Sales Ross

The lat­est doc­u­men­tary from Tunisian direc­tor Kaouther Ben Hania cen­ters a quar­tet of young women whose lives are changed for­ev­er when two of them join ISIS.

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In Retrospect