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The return of SQIFF
by Jennie Kermode
Helen Wright on the Scottish Queer International Film Festival.
A broad vision
by Jennie Kermode
Martin Radich on the trials and triumphs of filming Norfolk.
On pointe
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Sergei Polunin and Steven Cantor on Dancer.
All sewn up
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Jocelyn Moorhouse and Sue Maslin on Rosalie Ham and The Dressmaker.
Stone: US state security way beyond East German Stasi
by Amber Wilkinson
Snowden director and stars talk about whistleblowing, terrorism and biopic.
New York Film Festival encore highlights
by Anne-Katrin Titze
My Journey Through French Cinema, Fire At Sea, Julieta and Neruda.
A touch of glamour
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Jocelyn Moorhouse and Sue Maslin discuss The Dressmaker.
Past and present
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Sharon Maguire and Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones's Baby.
Women on top
by Amber Wilkinson
Sigourney Weaver on rise of strong female roles, support for Clinton and A Monster Calls.
Five to watch on 4K
by Jennie Kermode and Amber Wilkinson
The latest Ultra HD Blu-ray releases reveal a format whose time has come.
Celebrating the network
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky on Defying The Nazis: The Sharps' War.
Finding the Fab Four
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Paul Shaffer and Alessandro Nivola on their formative Beatles moments.
Beatlemania
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Steven Van Zandt at the New York première of The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years.
Trapped in an ideal world
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Fred Schepisi on capturing a mythical Andorra.
The diarist
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Renée Zellweger on why everybody loves Bridget Jones.
The guy next door
by Jennie Kermode
Bill Engvall on swapping comedy for horror in The Neighbour.
Back to Bridget
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Colin Firth on pride, prejudice and Bridget Jones's Baby.
The music makers
by Anne-Katrin Titze
The musicians of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura tell their stories.
Getting on the train
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Favio Chávez on the stories behind Landfill Harmonic.
Capturing Cateura
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus and Alejandra Amarilla discuss Landfill Harmonic.
Lost and profound
by Amber Wilkinson
Verena Kuri and Sofia Brockenshire talk about their feature debut One Sister.
Faith in the family
by Amber Wilkinson
Shubhashish Bhutiani on his feature debut Hotel Salvation and Venice's Biennale College.
New York Film Festival Early Bird Highlights
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Things To Come, Graduation, Elle, and I, Daniel Blake.
The storyteller's tale
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Colin MacCabe on The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger.
Car trouble
by Jennie Kermode
Ivan Silvestrini on taking on the desert to make Monolith.
Zeroing in
by Jennie Kermode
Adam Levins on Population Zero, storytelling and the documentary art.
Portrait of the artist
by Jennie Kermode
Laura Casabé on art, psychiatry, Argentinean cinema and Benavidez's Case
Up from the depths
by Jennie Kermode
Stewart Sparke and Paul Butler talk Frightfest, women in film, HP Lovecraft and The Creature Below.
Prepare to be scared
by Jennie Kermode
Five Frightfest films to send shivers down your spine.
Inside the big top
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Benedikt Erlingsson on daredevil antics and The Show Of Shows.
Ice cream and pretzels
by Anne-Katrin Titze
At the New York première of The Hollars with John Krasinski, Margo Martindale and Sharlto Copley.
Childhood ambition
by Amber Wilkinson
Brady Corbet on making audiences think, Robert Pattinson and the culture of celebrity.
Sound and fury signifying everything
by Amber Wilkinson
Brady Corbet on history repeating itself and the look and score of The Childhood Of A Leader.
Fragments of chaos
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Alice Winocour on assembling Disorder.
King of hearts
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Maïwenn and Louis Garrel on strategy, truth, destructive love and My King.
Aftermath
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Alice Winocour on hyper-vigilance, sound, PTSD and Disorder.
Tales of resistance
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Cillian Murphy and Anna Geislerová discuss what Anthropoid means to them.
Ordinary heroes
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Jamie Dornan and Charlotte Le Bon on working with Sean Ellis and the real story behind Anthropoid.
Enter the 4th dimension
by Luke Shaw
We check out the latest attempt to create truly immersive cinema.
Vanishing point
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Clément Cogitore on war, myths, disappearances and Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Looking back
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Miri Ann Beuschel and Anton Honik talk time, love, monkey puppets and Parents.
The genius of Roth
by Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Indignation première with Linda Emond and Danny Burstein.
Sex in the village
by Amber Wilkinson
Leena Yadav on gender politics, conditioning and getting away from the blame game in Parched.
Stranger than fiction
by Amber Wilkinson
Jeff Feuerzeig on documenting the creation of a 'literary myth' in Author: The JT Leroy Story
Roses and escargots
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon at the première of Indignation.
The danger of normal
by Anne-Katrin Titze
James Schamus on Indignation and how there's always a Malvolio.
Where the heart is
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Christian Tafdrup on Parents and dreaming to make movies.
Remembering Héctor Babenco
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Bruno Barreto and Laurence Kardish pay tribute.
Politics goes pop
by Leo Bankersen
Director Hany Abu-Assad on comedy, tragedy and a reluctant hero in The Idol.
Moongazing
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Kyle Molzan on Georges Simenon, Jerry Lewis and For The Plasma.
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Expanding the possible Fernanda Salgado on fantasy, reality, Jan Švankmajer and Ana, En Passant

A burning thing Sneha Mehta and Teddy Stern on falling in love with Mumbai, and making Getar Hero

Nothing is impossible Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns

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