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Many years after War for the Planet of the Apes, the ape empire grows and the future for all apes and humans alike hangs in the balance.
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Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Luis Ospina: the politics of vampires
Across five decades, the Colombian filmmaker has used the conventions of horror and noir to enquire, document and provoke. From our January 2019 issue.
By Ela Bittencourt
10 great French avant-garde films of the 1920s
By David Parkinson
Hoard: Luna Carmoon wields disgust like a weapon in this filthily captivating debut
Hoard: Luna Carmoon wields disgust like a weapon in this filthily captivating debutRome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini’s great leap for realism on screen
By Alex Barrett
Stop-motion animation season supported by Laika coming to BFI Southbank
Stop-motion animation season supported by Laika coming to BFI SouthbankTiger Stripes: a ferocious Malaysian pre-teen horror
By Simran Hans
O Lucky Man!, revisiting Lindsay Anderson’s anarchic 1970s trip down the rabbit hole
By Stephen Dalton
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Writer-director Luna Carmoon and actor Joseph Quinn visit BFI Southbank to talk about Carmoon's debut feature, in which a young woman journeys through childhood trauma and emerging sexuality.
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