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Oct 10, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard
Though scholars of early film have been much preoccupied with the emergence of storytelling and narrative, the dominant mode of early cinema – beginning with the first films of the Lumières in 1895 – was in fact the actuality, or what might be called documentary before documentary.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard |Ryan Swen
If you look at the career of any beloved filmmaker, their journey to cinematic greatness almost always begins with short films. Before Wes Anderson became known for his symmetrical style he made the 1994 short Bottle Rocket, Lynne Ramsay’s 1996 short Small Deaths was made before she was acclaimed for her powerfully melancholic features, and Christopher Nolan’s mammoth career was predated by his 1997 short film Doodlebug.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard |Ryan Swen |David Parkinson
Has there ever been a genre shift as seismic as the move from Ridley Scott’s Alien to James Cameron’s Aliens? The leap from a claustrophobic ‘haunted house in space’ sci-fi horror to a 1980s gung-ho action film is whiplash-inducing. It may be no surprise that it is the latter that has long inspired video game developers.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Faye D. Effard |Ryan Swen |David Parkinson |Lillian Crawford
When Barbara Creed published The Monstrous-Feminine in 1993, she opened the door to a completely different way of thinking about female monsters in horror history. Instead of seeing them purely as frightening versions of women, Creed talked about how “all human societies have a conception… of what it is about woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject”, and how these characters represent deeper cultural fears about women, especially concerning their bodies and sexuality.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Faye D. Effard |Leigh Singer |Stig Björkman
With his latest feature Civil War, writer-director Alex Garland offers viewers an American election-year provocation wrapped upin a nuanced study of the risk-taking lives of war reporters. In a near-future United States ravaged by a conflict in which the ‘Western Forces’ of Texas and California are among groups fighting for control, photojournalist Lee (Kirsten Dunst) hopes to get the last interview with the president (Nick Offerman) at the White House in the final days of his tenure.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Faye D. Effard |Leigh Singer |Stig Björkman |Lou Thomas
Directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss tell us about their new documentary Girls State, following a campus in Missouri that allows girls to form a mock government. 5 April 2024By Faye D.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Jamie Dunn |Faye D. Effard |James Childs
“Something that’s problematic can still mean a lot in your development,” says one interviewee in the documentary Chasing Chasing Amy, from director Sav Rodgers. Growing up in Kansas, Rodgers had little exposure to positive portrayals of queer people in daily life.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Jamie Dunn |Faye D. Effard |James Childs |Jez Stewart
Cinema is not short of stories about “that one summer that changed everything”, but Edge of Summer, the debut fiction film from Lucy Cohen, stands out from the pack in the way it weaves myth and reality to tell a dreamy tale exploring the liminal space between childhood and adulthood.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Faye D. Effard |James Childs |Jez Stewart |Sam Wigley
In 1921, the Football Association told the public “the game of football is quite unsuitable for females”. Yet, 50 years later, an unofficial Women’s World Cup tournament went ahead in Mexico City. Despite threats of further fines and bans from FIFA, teams from England, France, Italy, Argentina, Denmark and Mexico arrived on their coaches, spilling out into the sunny Azteca Stadium where they were welcomed with warm enthusiasm by their hosts.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Sam Wigley |Filipe Furtado |Faye D. Effard
As Glasgow gets ready for its annual feast of film, we highlight 10 hot tickets. This year’s 2024 Glasgow Film Festival is the 20th edition, and no effort has been spared for the celebrations. Taking place from 28 February to 10 March, the festival will host an impressive 69 UK premieres, 11 world and international premieres, and 15 Scottish premieres at venues across the city – including Glasgow Film Theatre, which will be celebrating its own 50th anniversary later this year.
