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Echo (Bergmál): A work of remarkable melancholy and beauty
In English Bergmál literally translates as “rock language”: the sound vibrating off stone, the tantalising echolalia. Rock language…
By Joseph OwenSpecial
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Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye is less satire of coming-of-age teen dramas, more comprehensive re-rendering. As well as negotiating the…
By Joseph Owen
Cinema & Tv
Hilary Swank discusses a career of making stories for the underdog at Locarno 2019 press conference
Hilary Swank has collected the Leopard Club Award for lifetime achievement at Locarno Film Festival. The two-time Oscar…
By Joseph Owen
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“Motherhood is a very complex human event that society always tries to simplify”: Director Maura Delpero on Maternal
Maternal is the debut feature from Italian director Maura Delpero. It is being screened in competition at this…
By Joseph Owen
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7500 press conference with director Patrick Vollrath, Joseph Gorden-Levitt and co-stars
Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivered a thinly veiled rebuke to Donald Trump at Locarno Film Festival. Gordon-Levitt described how 7500,…
By Joseph Owen
Live music
Kero Kero Bonito at Meltdown Festival 2019
This performance, part of the legendary Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre, this year curated by Nile Rodgers,…
By Jessica Wall
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7500
7500 – it’s not good news when air traffic control hears those numbers. The frantic utterance of digits…
By Joseph Owen
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Space Dogs
Disclaimer: many animals were harmed during the making of this film. A tonic – if that’s the right…
By Joseph Owen
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“We were interested in family relationships and dynamics between female friendships”: Greener Grass press conference with directors and stars Dawn Luebbe and Jocelyn DeBoer
“They’re attached at the hip. They’re like a two-headed monster.” So said the producer of Jocelyn DeBoer and…
By Joseph Owen
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Maternal
How we relish the agony of mothers. The origins are biblical. Mary witnesses her son’s removal from the…
By Joseph Owen