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Duty calls: Zero Dark Thirty

In our rolling-news age, Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller arrives only 18 months after the bin Laden kill mission it depicts. Is such haste at the expense of perspective, asks Michael Atkinson?

Video essay: The animal menagerie of Rhythm and Hues

Kevin B. Lee considers the digital circus mastery of Hollywood’s leading computer-generated-animal engineers.

Video: Steadicam progress – the career of Paul Thomas Anderson in five shots

Tracking a journey of camera journeys from Hard Eight to There Will Be Blood, Kevin B. Lee wonders if the director has put away showy things.

Beatitude: the real Beat cinema

With Jack Kerouac’s era-defining 1957 cult novel On the Road finally reaching the screen as costume drama, Stuart Heaney remembers the writer’s celluloid fellow-travellers.

Revolutionary road: Boris Barnet’s The House on Trubnaya Street

Battleship Potemkin is a standby in ‘best ever’ polls. But what of those silent classics revived in recent years?

The secret history of the British film industry

Adam Dawtrey dips into the archives of the completion guarantee company Film Finances.

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