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18/07/2019
Karlovy Vary 2019: Our festival highlights
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival returned to Bohemia this year with another feast of cinema from Europe and beyond.Continue Reading
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25/10/2018
Film Review: Shirkers
★★★★☆ Sandi Tan’s luminous and shape-shifting documentary Shirkers is a journey back in time through the 16mm reels and sinisterContinue Reading
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15/08/2018
Film Review: Christopher Robin
★★★☆☆ Ideally, Disney would stop updating beloved cartoon classics into new live-action films, but as that seems unlikely, it’s luckyContinue Reading
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11/07/2018
Karlovy Vary 2018: Our festival highlights
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” Radu Jude’s film claimed the top prize atContinue Reading
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11/07/2018
Karlovy Vary 2018: Winter Flies review
★★★★☆ Olmo Omerzu’s follow-up to the stinging satire of 2015’s Family Film is another tale of children left to theirContinue Reading
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11/07/2018
Karlovy Vary 2018: Profile review
★★★☆☆ Unfolding entirely on a laptop screen, Timur Bekmambetov’s new thriller Profile seeks to explore the murky world of howContinue Reading
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11/07/2018
Karlovy Vary 2018: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” review
★★★★☆ Following 2015’s Aferim!, Radu Jude returns to the topic of historical Romanian anti-Semitism in his furious new satire “IContinue Reading
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04/06/2018
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018: Our programme highlights
This week sees the return of one of the highlights of the UK’s festival calendar in the form of SheffieldContinue Reading
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16/05/2018
Film Review: A Cambodian Spring
★★★☆☆ Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2017, Chris Kelly’s A Cambodian Spring is an intimate andContinue Reading
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08/05/2018
DVD Review: Intimate Lighting
★★★★☆ Despite being relatively light on political content, Ivan Passer’s Intimate Lighting – re-released on DVD and Blu-ray this weekContinue Reading
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10/03/2018
Film Review: A Prominent Patient
★★★☆☆ The always interesting Karel Roden is the MVP in Julius Ševčík’s A Prominent Patient, playing Czechoslovakian diplomat Jan MasarykContinue Reading
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30/01/2018
LSFF 2018: Our festival roundup
The London Short Film Festival returned to the capital this month with another cornucopia of new and beloved shorts fromContinue Reading
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22/12/2017
Film Review: Pitch Perfect 3
★★☆☆☆ The Barden Bellas return to the spotlight in their third outing, an uneven European tour that wraps a niceContinue Reading
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11/12/2017
Tallinn 2017: Our picks of the Black Nights festival
Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival returned to the Estonian capital for its 21st instalment from 17 November – 3 December.Continue Reading
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10/11/2017
Made in Prague: Our festival highlights
The Made in Prague Film Festival (10-19 November) is back in London over the next two weekends. Programmed by theContinue Reading