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Dec 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Rory Doherty |Duncan Wheeler |Lou Thomas |George Bass
Since Call Me by Your Name in 2017, at least one Luca Guadagnino project has premiered every year – be it a feature film, short, documentary or miniseries. While all of them align with his unique style of patient camerawork, severe colour grading and extended bouts of agony and eroticism, each release has adopted a new tone, a new type of conflict, a new thematic intensity.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Brogan Morris |Bryony Dixon |Duncan Wheeler
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Bryony Dixon |Brogan Morris |Duncan Wheeler
The first step in any film restoration project is to gather together as much knowledge as possible about the film and the context in which it was produced. This will provide clues as to how the finished film should look and the probable location of any surviving materials. As many as 80% of silent films are permanently lost, so we need to search thoroughly for any available prints, negatives, copies on smaller formats, or even fragments.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas Festivals |Lou Thomas |Duncan Wheeler |George Bass
For cinephiles visiting Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, it’s worth a peek outside the cinema. Aside from the cobbled streets and medieval spires of the Estonian capital’s old town – a UNESCO World Heritage site – you can glimpse arthouse and blockbuster locations alike, including for Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi drama Stalker (1979) and Christopher Nolan’s palindromic puzzler Tenet (2020).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Duncan Wheeler |George Bass |Nick James |Michael Brooke
In the 2002 tragicomic faux western 800 Bullets, Basque filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia homes in on the life and fragmented family of an ageing stuntman in Almería who ekes out a living by recreating scenes from the mythical western films in which he once participated.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
barcelona-metropolitan.com | Duncan Wheeler
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
Every year the Spanish ministry of culture awards prizes for different artistic disciplines. From next year onward, the country’s national bullfighting award will be withdrawn.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Duncan Wheeler
By Duncan Wheeler, Professor in Spanish Studies, University of Leeds
Every year the Spanish ministry of culture awards prizes for different artistic disciplines. From next year onwards, the country’s national bullfighting award will be withdrawn. The current Spanish minister of culture, the Barcelona-born Green politician Ernest Urtasun, supports the prohibition of what has long been known as Spain’s “national fiesta”.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Duncan Wheeler
Every year the Spanish ministry of culture awards prizes for different artistic disciplines. From next year onwards, the country’s national bullfighting award will be withdrawn. The current Spanish minister of culture, the Barcelona-born Green politician Ernest Urtasun, supports the prohibition of what has long been known as Spain’s “national fiesta”.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Duncan Wheeler
Linares, Manzanares, Talavera de la Reina – these are all provincial Spanish towns where celebrity matadors have been killed. Most famous of all is Pozoblanco, 80km north of Córdoba. On September 26, 1984, Francisco Rivera, known as Paquirri, José Cubero Sánchez, aka El Yiyo and Vicente Ruiz, known as El Soro, faced six bulls in a televised corrida. At a time when public television had a monopoly, the nation saw the fighting bull Avispado gore Paquirri.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Ben Gambuzza |Brad Spurgeon |Katherine Turman |Duncan Wheeler
Brooklyn-born LCD Soundsystem, fronted by the redoubtable James Murphy, recently headlined All Points East, an urban music festival in the multi-ethnic district of London’s Bethnal Green, part of a 14-date European tour. At Victoria Park, the Pixies opened for LCD; the bill also included younger acts, including another Brooklyn band, Nation of Language.
