Movies
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Re-anticipating Megalopolis | Little White Lies
Some see cinema as a form of theatre, and others see it as a form of circus. The great American filmmaker Francis…
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100 Nights of Hero – first-look review
No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual…
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Girl – first-look review | Little White Lies
In teenage dramas the lesson of the classroom often sets the tone, so when Hsiao-Lee’s (Bai Xiao-Ying) teacher asks his…
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Remake – first-look review | Little White Lies
Elsewhere, McElwee films old friends who starred in his earlier films, such as Charleen Swansea, a poetry teacher and friend of…
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In the Hand of Dante – first-look review
In his narrative poem ‘The Divine Comedy’, accepted to have been written between 1308 and 1321 and widely considered to…
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Duse – first-look review | Little White Lies
Pietro Marcello follows his interwar fairytale, Scarlet, by returning to the same time period for a half-literal, half-imagined portrait of legendary…
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The Voice of Hind Rajab – first-look review
This is a near impossible film to review. In a world flooded with propaganda and misinformation about the genocide in Gaza, Kaouther…
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A House of Dynamite – first-look review
Now and then it occurs to me that the future of my very existence, as well as that of the…
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Dead Man’s Wire – first-look review
Anti-heroes make for compelling subjects, particularly in a world as unjust as the one we live in, and 1970s American cinema…
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Songs of Forgotten Trees – first-look review
In 2023, director Anuparna Roy reinvigorated conventional South Asian cinema’s themes of poverty, privilege and patriarchy with her debut short…
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