Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda has a fascination with family ties. Shoplifters is the latest in a series of award-winning films by Kore-Eda that include socially … More
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Representation onscreen and in the director’s chair
The BAFTAs came and went in 2018 with no women nominated for Best Director, and in a memorable speech, Natalie … More
London Film Festival 2018: Five things we learned
After 12 days of screenings, talks and red carpets, the London Film Festival came to a close on Sunday. More than 240 films … More
Why Cinema Paradiso Is The Ultimate Love Story
The love triangle between a boy, a man, and a cinema is framed in Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 masterpiece “Cinema Paradiso”. … More
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Put on as part of Cinema Rediscovered Film Festival’s Bazin 100 strand of screenings. Using Bazin as our critical compass … More
Out of Touch, Out of Luck, and Out of Love: God’s Own Country (2017)
Francis Lee makes his directorial debut with Gods Own Country (2017), a film partly based on the Yorkshire born director’s … More
Abashed (2017), cuando la verdad te mira a los ojos
“Sentía la obligación de hacer este trabajo”, declara Jesica González, directora de ‘Abashed’, cortometraje sobre la lucha de una … More
Reframing victimhood in Film: Cinema Rediscovered 2017
Sexism is all too present in cinematic representation, running in alignment with its social, political and cultural context, and as … More
Babe on Drugs: Okja (2017)
Screening at the Cannes film festival, Bong Joon-Ho’s latest film, Okja, was booed by the audience, and was the subject … More
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Finnish Director Aki Kaurismäki is not a prolific filmmaker, his last film LE HAVRE (2011), which follows the relationship between … More