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Going out with a bang
by Jennie Kermode
GFF days 10 & 11: Joss Whedon, Eli Roth, Joan Of Arc and a shot to the heart.
Fantasy, fright and fiction
by Jennie Kermode
GFF days 8 & 9: big stars, big launches and big screen games.
Playing the game
by Susanna Krawczyk
Game Of Thrones on the big screen.
Marvels of Mars
by Jennie Kermode
GFF days 6 & 7: Steve Niles, Steven Sterlacchini, Alex Salmond and the terrors of the deep.
Glasgow on screen
by Jennie Kermode
Nicola Balkind on her new book about the cinema-loving city.
Fired up about inequality
by Amber Wilkinson
Fire In The Blood's Dylan Mohan Gray talks about HIV/AIDS in the developing world and the problems of Big Pharma.
Going underground
by Jennie Kermode
GFF days 4 & 5: James D'Arcy, daleks and the secret of the subway.
Breaking the silence
by Owen Van Spall
Alex Gibney talks about documentary Mea Maxima Culpa.
True north
by Jennie Kermode
GFF Days 2 & 3: Nick Higgins, James Cosmo, Billy Connolly and (not) dying at the end.
Young love
by Jennie Kermode
GFF Day 1: Youthful antics, Populaire, Pollyanna McIntosh and John C Reilly.
Capturing Koch
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Director Neil Barsky on the challenges of documenting the life and times of the former Mayor of New York.
Athena Film Festival announces awards
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Pat Mitchell, Ava DuVernay and Gale Anne Hurd among those honoured by screen celebration of women and leadership.
Man in the No
by Amber Wilkinson
We talk to Pablo Larraín about his Oscar-nominated film.
Sundance Day Six: Focus Forward Competition winners
by Amber Wilkinson
Innovation and emerging documentary voices, as winners take home $200,000 in prize money.
Sundance 2013: Days 4 and 5
by Amber Wilkinson
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, Upstream Color, The Way, Way Back and Blackfish.
New York Safari, Part 2
by Anne-Katrin Titze
An expedition with the director of Soldate Jeannette.
Sundance 2013: Day 3
by Amber Wilkinson
Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The East and Stoker.
Athena Global Shorts
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Inside the US Mission to the United Nations première.
Pole position
by Staff Writer
Mateusz Jarza looks back at Play Poland.
Sundance 2013: Day 2
by Amber Wilkinson
The Look Of Love premiere, Austenland and The Spectacular Now
New York Safari, Part 1
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Daniel Hoesl on wildlife, Ulrich Seidl, Soldate Jeannette and the cost of eggs.
Sundance 2013: Day One
by Amber Wilkinson
Good and bad relationships in Two Mothers, This Is Martin Bonner, Newlyweeds, Mud, The Moo Man.
Sundance 2013: Opening night and press conference
by Amber Wilkinson
Robert Redford on embracing change, documentary Who Is Dayani Cristal? and Crystal Fairy
Sundance preview: 14 films we're looking forward to at this year's festival
by Amber Wilkinson
As indie filmmakers descend on Utah, we take a look at the films we're most looking forward to this year.
National Board of Review Awards Gala: Part Two
by Anne-Katrin Titze
On the red carpet with Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, David O Russell, Vanessa Redgrave and more
National Board of Review Awards Gala: Part One
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Quvenzhané Wallis, Jessica Chastain, Benh Zeitlin, Rich Moore and Famke Janssen talk to us on the red carpet, while a dashing Daniel Craig dashes past.
Speaking out about Lincoln
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Bill Raymond talks about his role as Speaker of the House in Steven Spielberg's film.
Unchained memories
by Anne-Katrin Titze
DiCaprio and Tarantino explain their motivations for Django Unchained, a portrait of shackled skeletons in the American closet.
Django Unchained Djunket: Part Two
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Samuel L Jackson, Walton Goggins, Don Johnson, Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Jonah Hill on Tarantino's latest.
Eye For Books
by Jennie Kermode, Andrew Robertson
Elizabeth Taylor, Spike Lee's America, Alfred Hitchcock's America and The Art Of Rise Of The Guardians.
Django Unchained Djunket: Part One
by Anne-Katrin Titze
How Leonardo DiCaprio's barbarous Calvin Candie came alive in Quentin Tarantino's movie.
Questions of belief
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Cosmina Stratan speaks about pressure, body language, the script, and costumes during the filming of Beyond The Hills, Romania's official entry for the 2013 Foreign Language Oscars.
A vision of Blancanieves
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Pablo Berger on fairy tales, cinema and misbehaving roosters.
Going beyond
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Cristina Flutur speaks about fearlessness, theater, the number of sins, and a magical spot on a sweater.
Making a Killing
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Director Andrew Dominik and actor Ben Mendelsohn on Killing Them Softly
Carnage and Caravanning
by Amber Wilkinson
Steve Oram, Alice Lowe and Ben Wheatley talk about the blackly comic Sightseers.
A whole Liotta hard work
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Actor Ray Liotta talks about learning to take a punch and his admiration for Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik.
Stars out for Gothams
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Marion Cotillard, Jack Black, Marina Abramovic and more chat to us on the red carpet.
Moonrise Kingdom rules at Gotham Awards
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Wes Anderson's coming-of-age film wins first big award of the season.
Cold cuts
by Max Crawford
Antiviral, Dead Sushi, American Mary and more - an Abertoir diary.
Disturbing case of the Central Park Five
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Documentary and NYC screening Q&A explore questions raised by wrongful rape convictions.
Staging Karenina
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Director Joe Wright talks about the theatrical and the painterly in his adaptation of Tolstoy's classic.
What's up with DOC NYC?
by Anne-Katrin Titze
A conversation with DOC NYC artistic director Thom Powers about the energised line-up of films in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
Putting animator in the doc
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Brad Bernstein and Rick Cikowski talk about making Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
The cloak of Karenina
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Star Keira Knightley talks about clothes, neurosis and shy person's homicide in Joe Wright's adaptation of the Tolstoy classic.
A devil in the making
by Amber Wilkinson
Filmmaker Sally El Hosaini talks about love, authenticity and persistence in her debut feature My Brother The Devil.
Highlights of DOC NYC
by Anne-Katrin Titze
As the Big Apple's documentary festival gets underway, there are plenty of films to look out for - and that's a fact
One man and his story
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Fashion designer and documentary subject Ozwald Boateng on passion, fashion and his favourite films.
The fashion of Hepburn
by Anne-Katrin Titze
New York exhibition explores the actress' style on and off-screen.
Georgia on her mind
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Director Julia Loktev talks about shooting The Loneliest Planet
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