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  The tragic mountain: the making of The Epic of Everest

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  John Noel was a soldier by profession but an artist in spirit, whose contributions as a pioneering photographer and cinematographer are only now, …

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  Cagney and the Mob: Kenneth Tynan on Hollywood’s original gangster

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  Twenty one years ago James Cagney, playing in his first film, invented a new kind of screen character. In more than fifty subsequent appearances he …

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  A tribute to the late Sue Bruce-Smith

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  In this period when the awards season draws towards its Oscar climax, let’s consider for once the people who make films happen without wanting any …

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  Scissors make films: Lotte Reiniger on creating her magical animations

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  Scissors play a very important part in the business of making films, and if it were not for the editor’s merciful use of them, the audiences in the …

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  Oliver Hermanus on Moffie: “Apartheid created a very binary code”

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  When we speak on the day of Moffie’s UK release, the film’s director, Oliver Hermanus, is on lockdown in South Africa. The pandemic has him …

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  Apr 25, 2020