Maxine Peake leads Thomas Clay's refreshing genre film, Fanny Lye Deliver'd (The Delivered in the US), about a woman's emancipation. We named Fanny Lye …
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Found footage gets a showcase at the Unnamed Footage Film Festival
This year's Unnamed Footage Film Festival was a 24-hour livestream that illuminated the best and worst traits of the found footage genre. At 6am GMT, …
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Riz Ahmed’s tour de force performance in Sound of Metal
Riz Ahmed's Oscar-nominated performance in Sound of Metal, as a heavy metal drummer going deaf, is a tour de force. From Shakespeare to noir, surfer dude …
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Highlights from BFI Flare 2021, from No Ordinary Man to Boy Meets Boy
Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to. Read more BFI Flare coverage. Europe's largest …
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The best films of Berlinale 2021
Editors Alex Heeney and Orla Smith pick the fifteen best films of Berlinale 2021, from Ninjababy to Petite Maman. Check out all our Berlinale …
Sublet Review: Two generations of gay men meet in Tel Aviv
In Sublet, a New York Times travel writer visiting Tel Aviv strikes up a friendship with a younger gay man whose apartment he's subletting. Read more BFI Flare …
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