Litro interviews the organisers of the 10th Zurich Film Festival.
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How the Mad Max sequel became the template for our imagined future.
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Better than Nostradamus.
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In Science Fiction, style really is everything.
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Al Pacino’s documentary is a funny but flawed product of passion.
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Al Pacino directs himself to his best performance in years, in this dark and powerful adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play.
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Fritz Lang’s M is significant not just as a lesson in the craft and history of moviemaking, but as a timeless treatise on civilisation’s most disturbing and overlooked issues.
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The BFI has restored this wonderful collection of silent short films that British audiences would have seen at the start of the First World War.
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Lav Diaz’s gargantuan Norte, The End of History is a furious, enthralling study of recent history’s effects on Philippine society.
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Michael Noer’s Danish crime thriller treads familiar ground with its eye-for-an-eye narrative, but it has many saving graces and offers something fresh for fans of the genre.
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A.K.A. selling off the proverbial bunnies
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A Hard Day’s Night is an explosion of joy onto the bleak, bombed out cultural landscape of post-war Britain.
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The Return to Homs offers a glimpse of history through a personal struggle of identity and sacrifice.
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Diego Quemada-Diez’s film, The Golden Dream, tells the story of three young Guatemalans attempting to cross the border to the United States.
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Grace of Monaco should have been a fascinating portrayal of Hollywood’s princess. So why was it received so badly?
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amelie and Delicatessen, returns with a story of a ten-year-old genius who travels across a US state to collect a scientific prize
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A truncated labour – why Frank Borzage’s 1932 adaptation of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms fails to capture the subtlety or indeed the story of the novel
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Conspiracy, romance and torture plays out in the shadow of the West Bank barrier in Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestinian drama, Omar
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A downbeat yet absorbing film, The Sea, by first time director Stephen Brown, adapts John Banville’s novel about a man searching for the time before his personal tragedy.
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Sweden’s Lukas Moodysson taps into the feminine punk-rock spirit of Pussy Riot in his latest film about three teenage girls standing against the adult world
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