Genre genius Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead End Drive-In is rooted in an unexpected bit of realism: that by the 1980s, many drive-ins had to be used for purposes other than screening movies during the day, as the core business had long stopped paying the bills.
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Winner of the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival, Dreams tells the story of 17-year-old Johanne, who comes to... View Article
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Cinema Wolność (= Liberty) is a rather ordinary movie hall where unremarkable movies like Jutrzenka get shown. But one fine... View Article
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Mika Kaurismäki’s most recent film in many ways marks a return to his roots. After completing his film studies in... View Article
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Director-screenwriter Sarah Friedland made a rare hat trick at the Venice Film Festival, winning both best debut award and the... View Article
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We honour the 130-year anniversary of film not only by documenting its origins through the Lumière brothers, but also by... View Article
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A love story meets a devilish pursuit, and documentary street scenes collide with stylised silent film aesthetics. True to its... View Article
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After years in prison, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns to his family farm in Oklahoma, only to find even grittier... View Article
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Erich von Stroheim's Greed is probably, along with Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), the most famous mutilated masterpiece in the history of cinema, an epic exploration of human nature that has been slashed from its original length of over nine hours to its current running time.
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How to portray a person whose job it is to think – this is the challenge von Trotta tackles in her biopic of the philosopher Hannah Arendt.
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