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Deadline's Contenders Film: London Kicks Off With A Dozen Buzzy Awards-Season Movies

By: Damon Wise

Try telling Londoners that cinema is dead and they will direct you to the BFI Imax cinema on the Southbank, where Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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‘Wildwood Director' Travis Knight On LAIKA's Stop-Motion Fantasy Epic: “It Took Us 16 Years To Make This Movie” – Contenders London

By: Damon Wise

Travis Knight took to the stage at Deadline's Contenders London event to explain just how much work had gone into making LAIKA 's new release

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Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo On Directing Rwanda's Oscar Submission ‘Ben'Imana': “We Need To Understand What Happened” – Contenders London

By: Damon Wise

It's been a good year for Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo; after directing the first Rwandan feature to be accepted into the official selection by the

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‘Half' Review: Hip-Hop Beats & Brutal Beatings In Samjad's Fast, Fun, Super-Violent Indian Vampire Horror Movie – Sitges Film Festival

By: Damon Wise

Two halves make a satisfying whole in this lean, mean action-horror, in which twin vampires stalk a scorching-hot Madras Max: Fury Road dystopia in the none-too-distant future.

‘Half’ Review: Hip-Hop Beats & Brutal Beatings In Samjad’s Fast, Fun, Super-Violent Indian Vampire Horror Movie – Sitges Film Festival

By: Damon Wise

Two halves make a satisfying whole in this lean, mean action-horror, in which twin vampires stalk a scorching-hot Madras Max: Fury Road dystopia in the none-too-distant future. The 1996 Robert Rodrigu...

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‘Cameron Winter At Carnegie Hall' Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's Concert Movie Captures The Grandeur And Intimacy Of An Esoteric Event – London Film Festival

By: Damon Wise

Every auteur's favorite side hustle is the music video, and Paul Thomas Anderson is no exception.

‘Cameron Winter At Carnegie Hall’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Concert Movie Captures The Grandeur And Intimacy Of An Esoteric Event – London Film Festival

By: Damon Wise

Every auteur’s favorite side hustle is the music video, and Paul Thomas Anderson is no exception. But where the likes of Martin Scorsese like to go bigger when they make a full-blown concert movie, PT...

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‘Klara And The Sun' Review: Taika Waititi's Latest Is A Curiously Flat Dystopian Comedy-Drama – London Film Festival

By: Damon Wise

A.I. meets Y.A. head-on in this curiously flat comedy-drama, which almost perfectly illustrates how ill-prepared we are for the technological revolution that's coming to us.

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Mark Kermode & Daphne Dentz On Restoring ‘Ken Russell's The Devils': “There's A Balance Between The Grain, The Dirt, The Vibe And The Look”

By: Damon Wise

If you don't ask, you don't get, and that's what Mark Kermode discovered over 20 years ago while trying to put together the definitive version of

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Renate Reinsve On Making Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Smash ‘Fjord’

By: Damon Wise

Renate Reinsve on making Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes smash ‘Fjord’: “I knew I was going into a completely different world”