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Release the bats
by Jennie Kermode
Kelly Greene on Attack Of The Bat Monsters
A taste of romance
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Sophie Brooks on first dates, food and The Boy Downstairs
Turtle power
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Michaël Dudok de Wit on The Red Turtle and Robinson Crusoe
Shooting in a warzone
by Amber Wilkinson
Talal Derki on the dangers of filming Of Fathers And Sons, and why it was important to do it.
The girl upstairs
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Sophie Brooks on The Boy Downstairs and costume designer Keri Langerman
Campillo’s beat goes on
by Richard Mowe
Director on AIDS drama 120 BPM, writing from the heart and collaboration
Baye displays a mother’s pride
by Richard Mowe
The Guardians star on Beauvois, Hallyday, and working with her daughter
Beuys on film
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Andres Veiel on developing and shooting Beuys
Varda hits the road again
by Richard Mowe
New Wave icon on Faces Places, honours, outsiders and Demy
In the trees
by Jennie Kermode
David Bruckner on masculinity, monsters and The Ritual
La Binoche at the crossroads
by Richard Mowe
The Oscar winner on men, awards, and working with Claire Denis
Drawn that way
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Michaël Dudok de Wit on The Red Turtle and Studio Ghibli
On cloud nine
by Jennie Kermode
Jane Spencer on The Ninth Cloud, South Of Hope Street and women in Hollywood
Nature Beuys
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Andres Veiel on his new documentary about Joseph Beuys
The image makers
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Caroline Champetier on Vilmos Zsigmond, Robert Bresson, Jean Renoir, and her career
Sundance 2018: Festival preview
by Amber Wilkinson
Films we're looking forward to at this year's festival
It never was you
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Laurie Simmons on My Art and pushing boundaries
On the road
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Paolo Virzì on Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren and The Leisure Seeker
Making a connection
by Jennie Kermode
David Chirchirillo on Bad Match, online dating and the legacy of Fatal Attraction
Behind the mask
by Jennie Kermode
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo on taking on the legacy of Leatherface
The thing about evil
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Roberto Andò on Alfred Hitchcock, JK Rowling, Heiligendamm and The Confessions
Understanding Céline
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Emmanuel Bourdieu on Denis Lavant, Grégoire Hetzel and Louis-Ferdinand Céline
FIPRESCI Colloquium on Russian Cinema
by Amber Wilkinson
Putting the current crop of filmmakers into context in St Petersburg.
The apple of his eye
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Arnaud Desplechin on Lacan, Rilke, Hitchcock, Philip Roth, and Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut
Word play
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Denis Lavant on M Merde, language and counting cats
Lior Ashkenazi on 2018
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Star talks 7 Days In Entebbe, My Zoe, and The Wanderers: The Quest Of The Demon Hunter
Heritage, opera and war
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Don Rosenfeld on the Cook sisters and working with Emma Thompson and Cate Blanchett
Taking the waters
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Samuel Maoz and Lior Ashkenazi on Foxtrot
World of difference
by Amber Wilkinson
Writer/producer Alex Lipschultz on the challenges of making Menashe
Self-invented woman
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Alexandra Dean on style and substance in Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The butterfly
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Stéphanie Di Giusto on Loïe Fuller, The Dancer and scaring Harvey Weinstein
Artistic relations
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Denis Lavant on Samuel Beckett, Leos Carax and Caroline Champetier
The underside of history
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Gay Talese on The Voyeur's Motel, Voyeur, and what the voyeur saw
Making Matilda
by Amber Wilkinson
Aleksey Uchitel on his Russian costume drama and the controversy surrounding it.
Creating Closeness
by Amber Wilkinson
Director Kantemir Balagov on framing and reality in his Russian drama
Making a box office Attraction
by Amber Wilkinson
Fedor Bondarchuk on his science-fiction film
Wild ideas
by Jennie Kermode
Travis Stevens on 68 Kill, music, pulp fiction and the terrors of Louisiana
Cinema, culture and modernity
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Olaf Möller on Helmut Käutner, Wolfgang Staudte and Harald Braun
History and destiny
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Olaf Möller on The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963
Getting with the programme
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Jairus McLeary on The Work and giving prisoners a future
Highlights of Russian Film Week
by Amber Wilkinson
We pick four of the best from London fest.
Out of sight
by Jennie Kermode
Jasmine Hyde on taking on The Unseen
Orbital dynamics
by Jennie Kermode
Charlotte Sullivan on Radius and the challenges of playing an amnesiac
DOC NYC 2017: encore highlights
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me, Rebels On Pointe, Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Style illustrated
by Anne-Katrin Titze
James Crump on Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Battling extinction
by Jennie Kermode
Kate Brooks on The Last Animals and the fight to save elephants and rhinos
Lost in time
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Hampton Fancher on beauty, evil, and writing Blade Runner for Robert Mitchum
The homecoming
by Jennie Kermode
Ariadne Asimakopoulos and Maartje Wegdam on No Place For A Rebel
Light and the darkness
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Caroline Champetier on Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Claude Lanzmann and the subject of evil
Halloween happenings
by Jennie Kermode
Spooky goings-on in UK cinemas
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