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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 Theatre; Gore Vidal and William F Buckley; and who was the screen’s first superhero? Hint: it…
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 Anita Rocha da Silveira takes the slasher genre to Rio and we look inside the covers…
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 case whether our views on true crime stories have evolved. Plus: we get a glimpse of…
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 35mm projection at London’s Close-Up film centre. Plus: we talk to ‘Our Nixon’ director Penny Lane…
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 director Neil Jordan on his relationship with film-making.
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. Plus: from Sophia Loren to Giulietta Masina, how Italy stormed the best foreign-language category.
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 programme, Adrienne Boros. Plus: classic Golden Bear winners ‘Wild Strawberries’ from 1957 and 1998’s ‘Central Station’.
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 classic film noir was born. Author and historian Eddie Muller discusses Bogart’s ‘In a Lonely Place’…
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 been given the cinematic treatment, while much-praised film-maker Mark Cousins discusses his relationship with Belfast ahead…
Espionage
Sneaking about in the shadows, dressed in our Burberry trenches, we assess the spy scene in the cinema. From Michael Caine in ‘The Ipcress File’ (1965) to Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Saboteur’ (1942), author and social scientist Toby Miller stitches together the clues to determine how espionage thrillers impact our view of…
