Ben Foster has made a career out of portraying complicated men with some relationship to trauma, in as quiet and subtle way as possible. We delve deep into the …
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Jessica Forever interview: ‘In video games, it’s more about what you do in between the shootouts.’
French directors Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, together with star Aomi Muyock, discuss Jessica Forever, a film as inspired by video games as it is by the …
Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training
First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms. …
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Brett Haley: ‘Music and creativity bring people together’
Director Brett Haley discusses Hearts Beat Loud and the joy of nice movies about kind people. …
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‘Nudity is their work outfit’: Vidal-Naquet on Sauvage
Writer-Director Camille Vidal-Naquet discusses telling the story of a male sex worker with humour, romance, and a frank approach to nudity. …
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Interview: Chloé Zhao on The Rider, her feminist film about masculinity
Winner of the top prize at Directors’ Fortnight, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider follows a young cowboy, Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), forced to reconsider his …
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Journey’s End is a thoughtful, modern screen adaptation
Saul Dibb’s adaptation of the acclaimed play sees the source material through a modern lens and makes use of the intimacy unique to the cinematic form. …
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A hitman more helpless than heroic
You Were Never Really Here traps us inside hitman Joe’s mind — but he’s an unreliable narrator who is far more helpless than he realises. This is the sixth …
Making YWNRH was a ‘crazy fever dream’
Producer Jim Wilson details the wild journey from pre-production to Cannes involved in making You Were Never Really Here. This is the fifth feature in our …
Lynne Ramsay: ‘Beautiful images cancel each other out’
Lynne Ramsay talks subverting hitman archetypes with gentleness, humour, and beauty. This is the first feature in our Special Issue on You Were Never Really …
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