Ahead of tomorrow’s UK cinematic release of Moonlight, director Barry Jenkins speaks to the FT and Danny Leigh about the film, his poor upbringing, like that of Moonlight’s principal character, in Miami, and his journey into the industry. Leigh does a great job of revealing the curiosity of the man.
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Listen: ‘Black Mirror’, How Directors Joe Wright and Owen Harris Built Dystopian Worlds That Look Like Our Own
I’m sure a lot of you were refreshing your Netflix homepage last Friday waiting for Black Mirror to appear. This podcast talks to two of the series’ directors about creating dystopia and the freedom of working with the creative mind of Charlie Brooker: “Although the technology is very specific the world is not.”
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Listen: Thelma & Michael: Love in the Cutting Room
Guest Curator, Pamela Hutchinson: “It just so happens that two of my favourite film-makers were married to each other: Martin Scorsese’s genius editor Thelma Schoonmaker and the brilliant British director Michael Powell. This short radio documentary tells the story of their romance, which ran in parallel to the rediscovery of his work.”
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Cannes 2016: French Producers Plot World Domination
A layered preview ahead of the now on-going Cannes film festival. Anne Thompson surveys the new wave of French cinema, not just in the French language, and the women directors at its helm. “We have one century of the male eye in cinema. The new cinema, the way it’s moving now, comes from women directors.”
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Le CiNéMa Club
A simple premise and executed nicely, this online cinema club sends you one new film every week for free viewing, with the bonus of curated lists of films by some of the world’s best directors, including Wes Anderson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alex Ross Perry, Joachim Trier etc.
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50 documentaries you need to see
This insightful list from The Guardian asks documentary filmmakers including Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing), Alex Gibney (Scientology and the Prison of Belief) and Kim Longinotto (Dreamcatcher) for their own favourite docs.
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Watch: Way of Ozu
In his latest visual essay, :: kogonada explores the distinctive visual style of the great Yasujiro Ozu. Placing three images across the screen he charts the recurring motifs and compositions that Ozu employed to such brilliant effect.
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Andrzej Zulawski, 1940-2016
“Underlying the heightened nature of the films was a deep, questioning soulfulness related to literary antecedents coupled with a vision of cinema open to shifting levels of perception and fantasy.” David Thompson examines the life and work of the dearly departed Andrzej Zulawski.
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The Oscar for Best Forgotten Film Pioneer goes to this black director
“In a time ripe with racial segregation, it was a necessity for blacks to see their stories on screen, and this was the only way to see them.” This piece is a fascinating spotlight on the generally unknown Oscar Micheaux whose lack of technical quality may have buried his progressive and provocative early-cinema output.
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