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An erotic odyssey from Abdellatif Kechiche becomes the most universally adored film at Cannes 2013.
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Hopes were sky high for James Gray's lavish NY period drama, but this one left us cold.
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Paul Wright flies the Union Jack on the Croisette with his energetic, if flawed debut feature.
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It's time to meet the devil. Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reteam to take us on a strange and spectacularly violent journey to hell.
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Claire Denis' new film may not be playing in the Cannes competition, but that doesn't prevent it from being a masterpiece.
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Japanese maverick Takashi Miike's high-concept cop thriller failed to deliver a killer blow to this year's competition.
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Italy's Paolo Sorrentino returns to Cannes with a glittering, exhilarating, if entirely oblique existential odyssey.
Interviews
The Mud writer/director talks us through his top filmmaking tips.
Interviews
The master of Hollywood mirth has gone all serious with his role in Richard Linklater’s brilliant Bernie. But LWLies finds that he’s still committed to the funny.
By Matt Thrift
Interviews
The Evil Dead director reveals how set about putting flesh on his R-rated reimagining of Sam Raimi's cult favourite.
Interviews
The director of Last Tango In Paris and The Conformist talks butter, De Niro's package and the spiritually consoling properties of filmmaking.
Interviews
Her mother was a soap star and she smoked cigarettes with her history teacher. So how did Dominga Sotomayor make one of the best debut features of recent times?
Interviews
The Spring Breakers director reveals how trap rap, trash TV and Britney Spears all inspired his brilliantly deranged teen romp.
Articles
With the recent release of the poster for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, what better time to revisit the director's urgent and uncompromising debut?
Cult Film Club
The female body is the incendiary focus of Catherine Breillat’s tenth feature.
Cult Film Club
Toshio Matsumoto’s feature debut from 1969 is a tapestry of transgression.
Cult Film Club
David Bowie cements his status as a spaceman in Nicolas Roeg’s extraterrestrial tragedy.
Cult Film Club
With Tarantino’s forthcoming Django Unchained the talk of the town we take a look at the film that gave it its name.
Cult Film Club
The great Sam Fuller takes us deep into the mouth of madness in this towering thriller from 1963.
Cult Film Club
Georges Franju’s monstrous masterpiece delivers horror sans face but with a huge heart.
Scene Focus
With Stanley Kubrick's superlative horror back in cinemas, we dissect the moments when when Jack Torrance's sanity finally snaps.
Scene Focus
The introduction of Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth sets the tone for David Lynch's darkly surreal masterpiece.
Scene Focus
Ingmar Bergman digs a shallow grave for marriage in this bold and traumatic suburban drama.
By Declan Tan
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FW Murnau's troubled melodrama survives as an unsung classic of Hollywood's golden era.
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Coppola's unsung masterpiece offers an uncommon and uncompromising view of American living.
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Spike Lee presents a teenage wasteland as the backdrop the story of one of America's most notorious serial killers.
Festivals Hopes were sky high for James Gray's lavish NY period drama, but this one left us cold.
Festivals Alexander Payne follows up The Descendants with a bittersweet road-trip into old America.
Festivals Paul Wright flies the Union Jack on the Croisette with his energetic, if flawed debut feature.
Festivals It's time to meet the devil. Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reteam to take us on a strange and spectacularly violent journey to hell.
Festivals Claire Denis' new film may not be playing in the Cannes competition, but that doesn't prevent it from being a masterpiece.
Festivals Japanese maverick Takashi Miike's high-concept cop thriller failed to deliver a killer blow to this year's competition.