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Cannes 2013: The Past – Review Articles

Cannes 2013: The Past – Review

The director of A Separation has done it again with a rich, harrowing and humane family drama.

Cannes 2013: Young And Beautiful – Review Articles

Cannes 2013: Young And Beautiful – Review

François Ozon delivers an erotic odyssey with a social conscience, but it's all a little dull and impenetrable.

Cannes 2013: Heli – Review Articles

Cannes 2013: Heli – Review

The new film from Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante does little more than pick up the penis abuse baton from Lars von Trier's Antichrist.

Cannes 2013: 10 Things You Need To Know Articles

Cannes 2013: 10 Things You Need To Know

The Cannes film festival kicks off this week. Here are a few things that have got us a little excited…

RIP: Ray Harryhausen, auteur Articles

RIP: Ray Harryhausen, auteur

LWLies mourns the passing of the beloved visual effects maestro who died at the age of 92.

LWLies 47: The Man Of Steel Issue Articles

LWLies 47: The Man Of Steel Issue

What if a magazine aspired to something greater? Man Of Steel. Mag Of Steel.

Ben Kingsley: My Acting Guide Articles

Ben Kingsley: My Acting Guide

The British movie icon and Iron Man 3 star reflects on his remarkable career and reveals how he made it to the top.

Interviews

Jeff Nichols: Rules Of The Game Interviews

Jeff Nichols: Rules Of The Game

The Mud writer/director talks us through his top filmmaking tips.

Jack Black On The Art Of Being A Clown Interviews

Jack Black On The Art Of Being A Clown

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.

Fede Alvarez: How To Remake A Horror Classic Interviews

Fede Alvarez: How To Remake A Horror Classic

The Evil Dead director reveals how set about putting flesh on his R-rated reimagining of Sam Raimi's cult favourite.

Bernardo Bertolucci: My Life In The Movies Interviews

Bernardo Bertolucci: My Life In The Movies

The director of Last Tango In Paris and The Conformist talks butter, De Niro's package and the spiritually consoling properties of filmmaking.

On The Road With Dominga Sotomayor Interviews

On The Road With Dominga Sotomayor

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?

Harmony Korine: How I (Accidentally) Reinvented The Party Movie Interviews

Harmony Korine: How I (Accidentally) Reinvented The Party Movie

The Spring Breakers director reveals how trap rap, trash TV and Britney Spears all inspired his brilliantly deranged teen romp.

Cult Film Club

Pusher Revisited Articles

Pusher Revisited

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: Anatomy of Hell Cult Film Club

Cult Film Club: Anatomy of Hell

The female body is the incendiary focus of Catherine Breillat’s tenth feature.

Funeral Parade Of Roses Cult Film Club

Funeral Parade Of Roses

Toshio Matsumoto’s feature debut from 1969 is a tapestry of transgression.

Cult Film Club: The Man Who Fell to Earth Cult Film Club

Cult Film Club: The Man Who Fell to Earth

David Bowie cements his status as a spaceman in Nicolas Roeg’s extraterrestrial tragedy.

Django Cult Film Club

Django

With Tarantino’s forthcoming Django Unchained the talk of the town we take a look at the film that gave it its name.

Shock Corridor Cult Film Club

Shock Corridor

The great Sam Fuller takes us deep into the mouth of madness in this towering thriller from 1963.

Eyes Without A Face Cult Film Club

Eyes Without A Face

Georges Franju’s monstrous masterpiece delivers horror sans face but with a huge heart.

Scene Focus

The Shining: Scene Focus Scene Focus

The Shining: 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 – Blue Velvet Scene Focus

Blue Velvet

The introduction of Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth sets the tone for David Lynch's darkly surreal masterpiece.

Scene Focus – Scenes From A Marriage Scene Focus

Scenes From A Marriage

Ingmar Bergman digs a shallow grave for marriage in this bold and traumatic suburban drama.

Scene Focus – City Girl Scene Focus

City Girl

FW Murnau's troubled melodrama survives as an unsung classic of Hollywood's golden era.

Scene Focus - One From The Heart Scene Focus

One From The Heart

Coppola's unsung masterpiece offers an uncommon and uncompromising view of American living.

Scene Focus - Summer Of Sam Scene Focus

Summer Of Sam

Spike Lee presents a teenage wasteland as the backdrop the story of one of America's most notorious serial killers.

Festivals

Cannes 2013: A Touch Of Sin – Review Festivals

Cannes 2013: A Touch Of Sin – Review

Something a little different (and violent) from one of Asia's greatest directors.

Cannes 2013: The Past – Review Festivals

Cannes 2013: The Past – Review

The director of A Separation has done it again with a rich, harrowing and humane family drama.

Cannes 2013: Young And Beautiful – Review Festivals

Cannes 2013: Young And Beautiful – Review

François Ozon delivers an erotic odyssey with a social conscience, but it's all a little dull and impenetrable.

Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring – Review Festivals

Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring – Review

Sofia Coppola loses the snark and delivers her most chilling and rich movie to date.

Cannes 2013: Heli – Review Festivals

Cannes 2013: Heli – Review

The new film from Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante does little more than pick up the penis abuse baton from Lars von Trier's Antichrist.

Cannes 2013: 10 Things You Need To Know Festivals

Cannes 2013: 10 Things You Need To Know

The Cannes film festival kicks off this week. Here are a few things that have got us a little excited…