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Illustrating movies
Whatever happened to the art behind some of cinema’s most spectacular opening credits? We ask illustrator Supermundane as he unveils his artistic collaboration with Mubi and ‘Stack’. Plus: 70mm projections at Portland’s stunning Hollywood…
Hugh Jackman and Henry Cavill
The original superheroes are finally taking flight together but how does Zack Snyder’s visual buffet fare among an increasingly crowded comic-book universe? Plus: Hugh Jackman on the challenges of playing real-life characters, Brazilian director…
High-Rise
Director Ben Wheatley discusses his new film ‘High-Rise’, a dystopian satire that pitches architectural perfection as man’s downfall. Meanwhile, 50 years after Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’, we ask the lead prosecutor in the…
Art film in Vienna
As the spectacular 21er Haus museum in Vienna unveils what might be the world’s first road movie shot inside an art studio, we meet its creator Edgar Honetschläger. Meanwhile, we rediscover the pleasures of…
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Kent Jones, film critic extraordinaire and director of new documentary ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’, discusses his passion for film-making as an art. Plus: actress Jeanie Drynan on her brilliant performance in 1994 Australian classic ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ and…
All about Oscar
How did the Oscars make it to the top of the awards-show heap? We trace the backstory of cinema’s shiniest show and ask whether it’s time to reassess its place in the cinematic calendar.…
Berlin Film Festival
Rubbing shoulders at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, we hear from director Aaron Brookner about his new documentary ‘Uncle Howard’ and Retrospektive curator Raine Rother, as well as the co-ordinator of the festival’s refugee…
Noir
Spurred on by the paranoia of an America at war and the arrival of European film-makers in Hollywood, pulpy detective pot-boilers took on a genre of their own in the 1940s – and the…
Urbanism
Alongside the team behind Monocle 24’s ‘The Urbanist’, we’re trekking through a metropolitan maze as we explore how cities are depicted on screen. We hear from ‘Detroit Free Press’ on how its city has…
