Joseph Owen

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  Cairo Film Festival

  Cairo Film Festival 2018: Beckoning in a new era for this international festival

  This is the 40th...

  Joseph Owen 30th November 2018
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  Cairo Film Festival

  “Cinema is dead, long live cinema”: An interview with Peter Greenaway at Cairo Film Festival 2018

  Legendary British director Peter Greenaway has been presented with a lifetime achievement award and...

  Joseph Owen 30th November 2018
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  “Movies are emotional; it’s not an intellectual medium”: An interview with Bille August at Cairo Film Festival 2018

  Legendary, Oscar-winning Danish director Bille August is president of the...

  Joseph Owen 30th November 2018
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  Movie review

  The Workshop

  ★★★★★

  Laurent Cantet delivers an acute, complex character study of an angry young man, sup...

  Joseph Owen 14th November 2018
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  Film festivals

  Ash Is Purest White (Jiang Hu Er Nv)

  ★★★★★

  Jia Zhang-Ke’s Ash i...

  Joseph Owen 8th October 2018
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  Asako I & II (Netemo Sametemo)

  ★★★★★

  This is a strange, almost n...

  Joseph Owen 3rd October 2018
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  Movie review

  Wajib (Duty)

  ★★★★★

  This is expert filmmaking from Annemarie Jacir, now a veteran of the art house festi...

  Joseph Owen 10th September 2018
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  BlacKkKlansman

  ★★★★★

  Furious, funny and agitating, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is an explicit, direct...

  Joseph Owen 20th August 2018
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  Trot (Trote)

  ★★★★★

  This is a cold, uninvolving film that indulges in banal ...

  Joseph Owen 14th August 2018
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  “We hurt ourselves with our egos”: Ethan Hawke reflects on his success at Locarno 2018 press conference

  Actor and director Ethan Hawke is this year’s recipient of the 2018 Excellence AwardÂ...

  Joseph Owen 13th August 2018