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Films about the Black experience in America often mirror and rewrite mainstream cinema traditions. Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods enlists Apocalypse Now and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as…
There haven’t been many films that best described what life as a teenage journalist felt like until Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical classic Almost Famous hit…
Nora Fingscheidt’s System Crasher is a film of the most brutal kind. No, there are no bloody massacres, no war zones, no zombie apocalypse or…
The Hunt’s poster features the tagline “The most talked about movie of the year is one that no one’s actually seen. Decide for yourself”….
The prospect of a short film from an established filmmaker is not a totally enticing one, where often it can be a whole load…
The last decade or two have seen South Korean cinema produce international hits such as Park Chan-wook’s ‘Vengeance Trilogy’ and The Handmaiden, Lee Chang-dong’s…
The best movie of this year’s competition is not as showy as Siberia, not as experimental as DAU.Natasha, not as mythical as Undine. It’s…
Anyone that’s spent time in Berlin knows them: young African men roaming the big parks in Kreuzberg and Neukölln, jobless, often undocumented, forced to…
During its economical ninety minutes, Mogul Mowgli is certainly ambitious in terms of its thematic reach. Attempting to tackle complex issues such as notions of…
