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NOT Predicting The Oscars 2019
NOT Predicting The Oscars 2019

In order not to lose, or rather, in order to not win, but to not win with integrity, this year Dr. Garth Twa is choosing winners who aren’t even nominated.
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23 February 2019
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Giving a voice to the 48%
Giving a voice to the 48%

David Wilkinson on why he is bringing Postcards from the 48% to the big screen.
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15 July 2018
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Football’s Coming Out
Football’s Coming Out

Marcel Gisler on what triggered the making of Mario, a new LGBT football film.
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13 July 2018
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Nobody’s Baby Now
Nobody’s Baby Now

Brock Norman Brock on how Yardie was written for the screen.
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1 June 2018
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The story before the story
The story before the story

Derf is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist. He was the recipient of a prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartoons in 2006 and an Angoulême Prize for My Friend Dahmer in 2014.
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1 June 2018
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The making of Concealed
The making of Concealed

Filmmaker Shane T Hall writes about the process behind his latest movie.
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30 May 2018
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Beneath the Cambodian Spring
Beneath the Cambodian Spring

Director Chris Kelly’s nine-year journey unearthing the rapidly changing landscape of Cambodia.
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29 May 2018
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The beginning of Book Club
The beginning of Book Club

A rather unconventional conversation that gave way to an incredible journey.
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29 May 2018
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The Alphabetarium of Kötting
The Alphabetarium of Kötting

From way back when to the here and now – hereunder an Alphabetarium of Kötting.
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17 May 2018
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My love letter to football
My love letter to football

The long, often frustrating, but ultimately rewarding process of bringing The Bromley Boys to the screen
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16 May 2018
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Filming on a mountain
Filming on a mountain

Director Simon Hunter on making Edie and the extraordinary stamina of Sheila Hancock
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15 May 2018
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The making of a legend
The making of a legend

Eric Styles writes about directing John Hurt in his last leading role
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4 May 2018
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The hills are still alive
The hills are still alive

Prof. Caryl Flinn on the enduring appeal of The Sound of Music
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3 May 2018
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Basildon is complicated
Basildon is complicated

Director Christopher Ian Smith explores the location of Basildon for his new film New Town Utopia.
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27 April 2018
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Why Jayne?
Why Jayne?

The directors of Mansfield 66/67 write about what attracted them to 50s Hollywood movie goddess Jayne Mansfield.
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5 April 2018
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We Shall Not Forget: the lost films of 2017
We Shall Not Forget: the lost films of 2017

In this season of awards and pantheonic enshrinement, Dr. Garth Twa remembers those films that were treated negligently, their merits left to fallow.
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1 March 2018
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‘The Graduate’ at 50
‘The Graduate’ at 50

On it’s anniversary, Peter Kramer takes a closer look at the film’s critical and commercial success, and at the rather puzzling way in which it tells Benjamin’s story.
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12 December 2017
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Das Boot – Probably the Biggest German Blockbuster of All Time
Das Boot – Probably the Biggest German Blockbuster of All Time

How did this epic bestseller come to be turned into a movie?
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8 October 2017
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When it Rains, it Pours
When it Rains, it Pours

Joshua Glenn looks at the 25th Raindance Film Festival
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3 October 2017
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Attack of the Runaway Production
Attack of the Runaway Production

The gates are wide open in Vancouver, and Hollywood is moving in
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4 April 2017
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