Spoof documentaries once skewered subjects by dialling comic ingenuity up to 11, but the genre has stagnated – replaced by showbiz puff pieces and right-wing provocations. Has their time passed?
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And the winner is ... all of us? How the Oscars have changed for the better ⊕⊕
The diversified Academy and a mutating industry have changed what many had come to expect from the stuffy, rule-following Oscars
Last year, as the major fall film festivals took place around the world…
‘Like a DVD in the present tense’: are we ready for film distribution via USB drives? ⊕⊕
As big tech continues to dominate the film industry, Video StoreAge is a uniquely crafted company that works with film-makers to sell independent films on USB drives
The streaming-skeptical cinephile …
33 days ago
‘On YouTube, we can reach 2.5bn people at once’: Oscars head Bill Kramer on TV, AI and 4am starts ⊕⊕
The Academy CEO on his decidedly non-Hollywood beginnings, bonding with Robert Redford – and a formative watch of All That Jazz
It’s a boiling day in downtown Los Angeles; crowds are milling about out…
43 days ago
‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda ⊕
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Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, b…
56 days ago
The Breakdown | France’s creative heart ‘Jalipont’ can easily join rugby’s great double-acts ⊕⊕⊕
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Antoine Dupont and Matthieu Jalibert have thrilled during Les Bleus’ storming start to the Six Nations
The greatest double acts roll off the tongue. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Morecambe and W…
69 days ago
Goofy! Pouty! Unvampy! With nine films on the go, can Charli xcx act? ⊕
She’s the edgy British brat who conquered the world with her hard-partying, electro-banging aesthetic. But can the star now go where Beyoncé and Harry Styles stumbled – and smash the silver screen?
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V/H/S/Halloween review – plenty of grisly invention in latest helping of engaging horror anthology ⊖
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Portmanteau series’ latest instalment has nice touches with eerily jolly villains and haunted soda, but it could use a bit of an edit
This horror bonanza, the eighth instalment in the V/H/S anthology …
70 days ago
New home, new outlook? What’s next for the Sundance film festival? ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The final Utah edition of the hub for American independent film saw slow sales and a mixed bag of movies but a future in Colorado could bring a refresh
Sundance is over. Well, not quite. The Sundance …
74 days ago
Once Upon a Time in Harlem review – remarkable Harlem Renaissance documentary ⊕⊕
Sundance film festival: a once-in-a-lifetime dinner party from 1972 is transformed into a thrilling and inspiring hang-out movie
In August 1972, the experimental film-maker William Greaves convened a …