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Ish: Imran Perretta’s remarkably beautiful film captures the brutal challenges of adolescence
A police stop-and-search creates a rupture in the friendship between two Luton teens in this memorable evocation of childhood’s end.
By Jonathan Romney
Bryan Forbes at 100: remembering the Whistle down the Wind and The Stepford Wives director on his centenary
By Josephine Botting
Gods and monsters: Spirited Away reviewed in 2003
By Andrew Osmond
All-out puppet attack! The monster puppetry in Ishiro Honda’s kaiju classics
By Steven Sloss
The misfits of Zwigoff: a visit to the set of Ghost World
By SF Said
Mare’s Nest: Ben Rivers has produced his most hopeful film to date
By Joseph Fahim
“It’s never quite brutal enough for Chris”: The Odyssey cast reveal how they created Christopher Nolan’s epic adventure
By Lou Thomas
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Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins and his long-time creative partner James Ellis Deakins discuss their collaboration at BFI Southbank, ahead of a screening of the Coen brothers’ Fargo.
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