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Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of alien visitors with this all-star, much-anticipated blockbuster.
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Familiar Touch: a lovingly told coming-of-old-age film
Director Sarah Friedland explores the human mind in all its frailness and glory with her exquisite drama about a woman with dementia adjusting to a new life at an assisted living facility.
By Ela Bittencourt
“We use the street as a studio”: music video pioneers Tim & Barry on capturing the early years of grime
By Will Swinburne
BFI, BBC Film and Film4 partner on The Independent Film Sustainability Handbook
BFI, BBC Film and Film4 partner on The Independent Film Sustainability Handbook“The whole film is centred upon Hockney’s art”: A Bigger Splash reviewed in 1975
By Philip French
Cactus Pears: a gentle exploration of queer identities in rural India
By Srikanth Srinivasan
Here be tourists: how a Scottish black comedy satirises cultural Disneyfication
By Katherine McLaughlin
10 great football films of the 21st century
By Katherine McLaughlin
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