Berlinale
La Bête dans la Jungle (The Beast in the Jungle)
Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle turns 120, and in this time the novella has been subject…
By Selina SondermannSpecial
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Berlinale
“It’s important to love all types of films – and to show up in person at the movie theatre”: At the press conference for She Came to Me
The opening ceremony of the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival was willingly overshadowed by the ongoing war in…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
She Came to Me
Another year, another somewhat middling Berlinale opener. While doing press for her latest project, Anne Hathaway (pulling double…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
“Culture is a fire we can all gather around”: The international jury meet for the start of Berlin Film Festival 2023
It’s Thursday morning in Berlin and, en route to the Grand Hyatt where the opening press conference is…
By Selina Sondermann
Music
“We just try and make music that makes people feel”: An interview with Cameron Edwards of Sigma at Rise Festival
Sigma are the renowned DJ and production duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie, who first met…
By Sarah Bradbury
Live music
Rise Festival 2022 more than lives up to its promise of “a party on top of the world”
Do you like the feeling of drum and bass reverberating through your chest? Is the crisp mountain air…
By Sarah Bradbury
Culture
Marrakech Film Festival 2022: Revered auteurs and movie stars return to the cultural capital of Morocco for a glamour-drenched celebration of cinema
After a two-year hiatus due to the dreaded pandemic, the glamour-drenched Marrakech Film Festival returned to the North…
By Sarah Bradbury
Cinema & Tv
Roving Woman: John Hawkes, Lena Góra and Michał Chmielewski interviews at Raindance Film Festival 2022
Roving Woman is the first feature for filmmaker Michal Chmielewski with a script co-written with Lena Gora. The…
By Ezelle Alblas
Cinema & Tv
“Tegan and Sara’s discovery of sexuality and music really felt like my coming of age”: Clea DuVall and twins Seazynn and Railey Gilliland on High School
Series adaptation High School is taken from the published memoirs of Canadian indie-pop duo sensation Tegan and Sara and…
By Ezelle Alblas
LFF
“When we talk about wounds in our history, the trauma has to be revised over and over so that we can overcome it”: Manuela Martelli on political thriller 1976
1976, the debut feature from Chilean director Manuela Martelli, is a brooding, simmering political thriller set against the…
By Matthew McMillan