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Short Film Competition: Win €6000 with Nespresso
Think vertically with Nespresso Talents 2016 and your film could be showcased in a private screening during the Cannes Film Festival Cinema doesn’t si... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Director Tom Geens on Couple in a Hole
Tom Geens tells us about the tightrope he had to walk getting his moving film debut Couple in a Hole to the screen. The plot of the debut feature from Belgi... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Finnish films breaking out internationally
On the first floor of Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum, home to the largest collection of classical Finnish art, hangs The Fighting Capercaillies by Ferdi... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Michael Caton-Jones: “Pain is temporary, film is forever”
Michael Caton-Jones is back later this year with Urban Hymn, which the Rob Roy director describes as "a sort of Ken Loach musical." Ahead of his "In Conversa... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Best Film Screenings in the North (15-22 July)
Carrie Arguably the finest adaptation of a Stephen King novel (fans of The Shining might disagree), this is the film that helped a young Brian D... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Best debut feature films of 2016 so far
Brady Corbet’s behind-the-camera debut, The Childhood of a Leader, arrives in cinemas this week and it’s one of the year’s most impressive ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Little Men
Gentrification, class tensions and coming of age commingle in this vivid slice of life from Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On), who’s slow... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: Little Sister
Little Sister is a tonic to anyone jaded by the slick, smug and sentimental comedy-dramas (or ‘dramedies’) that have become the mainstay of Ameri... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Scottish Film Event Highlights – July 2016
Bill Forsyth turns 70 Bill Forsyth, Scotland’s greatest living filmmaker, turns 70 on 29 July, and GFT are throwing him a little do in the form of a t... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Best film screenings in the North (29 Jul-5 Aug)
‘Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier) The great Bertrand Tavernier, perhaps France’s finest post-Nouvelle Vague director, and certainly one of ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Best film screenings in the North (12-19 Aug)
The best film events happening in the North this week, including the annual POUTFest at HOME and Wim Wender's The American Friend at Hyde Park Picture House ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Best Film Screenings in the North (9-16 Sep)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including a tribute to Antonia Bird at HOME, Manchester and Kathryn Bigelow's fi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Michael Barbieri: from Little Men to Spider-Man
From a Sundance indie to the Spider-Man reboot, it's been an eventful six months for emerging actor Michael Barbieri. We speak to the 14-year-old about keepi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Scalarama 2016 Highlights
Top Five Scalarama Events in Liverpool Think Cinema presents The Headless Woman There are shades of Hitchcock and Antonioni in this discombobulating ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Film, art and visual programming at Storyhouse
Is there a more romantic metaphor for watching a movie than the idea of “stepping through the silver screen”? When film – or art, or theatr... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Jon Nguyen on his David Lynch doc The Art Life
With Twin Peaks coming back to TV, we have David Lynch on our mind. But where has he been for the last decade? Jon Nguyen, director of brilliant new doc Davi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Best Film Screenings in the North (30 Sep-7 Oct)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Artist Film Weekender and screenings of classic Highsmith adapt... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival announces 2017 programme
When a festival reaches number 13, the superstitious out there might brace themselves for the worst. Scanning the brochure for the 13th edition of Glasgow Fi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Richard Kelly on how the UK saved Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko, that irresistible tale of teen depression and time travel from 2001, is back in UK cinemas to mark its 15th anniversary. Writer-director Richar... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Manchester Animation Festival: five must-see films
Over three jam-packed days, Manchester Animation Festival (15-17 Nov) offers up a snapshot of the creativity going on in the world of animation right now, as... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Michelle Williams: "It’s unnatural to see yourself large on a screen"
From Dawson’s Creek heartbreaker to indie royalty, we speak to the incomparable Michelle Williams, who gives a stunning performance in Manchester by th... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Seven great alternative musicals
Ahead of the UK release of La La Land, Damien Chazelle's effervescent musical extravaganza paying homage to classic song and dance films, we suggest seven of... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Jennifer Reeder on filmmaking for social justice
“I’m an empath,” says Jennifer Reeder over a glitchy Skype call from Chicago. The American writer-director pauses, then quickly rephrases h... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Boiling Point: the doc exploring Finland's far right
The world is an ugly place at the moment. Turn on your TV or fire up your Twitter feed, and sandwiched between the new series of Bake Off and cute viral cat ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The best film events in Scotland in September
1) Scalarama (aka Scaledonia) The Punk Singer The joyously sticky-floored Scala Cinema may be no more, but it lives on in spirit through Scalarama, an annu... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The best film events in Scotland in October
1) Africa in Motion Soleil O Africa in Motion returns for its 12th edition to shine a much-needed spotlight on the films coming out of Africa, with cinema ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Call Me By Your Name’s director explains the film’s lack of nudity
Call Me By Your Name is a beautiful love story about two men falling for each other over one perfect summer in rural Italy. It’s among the finest films... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Chloé Robichaud on political satire Boundaries
The meaning of works of art change with time. An artist's message can be repurposed and repackaged decades later by new generations who find something fresh ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Kuso
“The grossest film ever made” screamed the hysterical headlines from Sundance when Steve Ellison – best known to the world as electronic mu... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Paul Auster talks death, Trump, and 4 3 2 1
Walk into Manchester’s HOME this month and you can’t miss Paul Auster; the cult author is all over the venue. An ambitious and visually inventive... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago