The British Academy Awards are a trial-run for the Oscars – but also a win-win situation for both US and British film producers.
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Vladimir Nabokov merged writing and cinema, bringing the art forms together like no one before or since.
From the superb Moonlight to the exuberant Thor: Ragnarok, it has been a rather good year for film. Here’s our take on the best (and the rest).
Why are there so few films about Northern Ireland’s unionists?
This is what it’s like going to the cinema when you can’t see the screen.
Just about everyone knows whodunnit. But there are other reasons to see a movie than just the plot.
From the good to the bad, to the downright scary.
A disaster fantasy raises questions about tinkering with Earth’s climate. With real-life scientists exploring geoengineering, what conversations should we be having now around these technologies?
The third in the Thor series, directed by New Zealand wunderkind Taika Waititi, is thoughtful, hilarious and looks magnificent.
What will the future of film look like?
Chaplin’s 1940 film ‘The Great Dictator’ mocks Hitler’s absurdity and overweening vanity, while highlighting Germany’s psychological captivity to a political fraud.
MIFF 2017 made good on its promise to explore new worlds, with timely films on American civil rights, Indigenous music, and queer activism. Here’s our pick of the ones to see.
Apes on film once wore monkey suits but today’s actors are drawing on techniques of method acting to bring complex, motion captured simian characters to life.
Alankrita Srivastava’s feminist film has Indian censors in a tizzy.
At a festival intertwined with France’s national identity, the tension of art, politics and commerce always looms.
As the bombs fell, people flocked to the movies.
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
Their critiques may be more gentle, their attacks more circumspect – but they are resonant nonetheless. And when filmmakers like Farhadi confront Trump, they’re on familiar turf: They’ve seen his type back home.
There are five very good films nominated for the Best Picture gong and one extraordinary one.
Imagine if you could pay less to see films that are less popular. Dynamic ticket pricing already happens in China – and it’s about to start here in over 100 Australian cinemas.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of French Studies, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, Adelaide University
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Professor of Cinema, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Lecturer in Creative Production and Performance, Western Sydney University
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Executive Director, Compton School
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London