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Restrictive legislation around film copyrights is stopping a countless amount of titles from doing what they are meant to do: being watched ‘A film that isn’t screened is dead’ — thus spoke Henri Langlois, the famed programmer of the Cinémathèque Française where Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and their contemporaries found
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Toothless satire and punching down in All My Friends Hate Me Much of UK-made cinema from the last few years has felt increasingly unimaginative. On one side, you have the feel-good, Richard Curtis-esque comedies, the Downton Abbeys and WWII adventures, invariably starring any number of Colin Firth impersonators. On the
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Lordan Zafranović's Occupation in 26 Pictures offers a refreshing and vital approach to history in cinema Films, TV, and perhaps in today’s age, social media, have a way of defining how we interpret, visualise and collectively memorialise the past far more concretely and definitively than the onerous,