A Quick Chat With Pawel Pawlikowski

A Quick Chat With Pawel Pawlikowski

Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski is one of the most intriguing directors working in Britain today. In this exclusive interview for kamera.co.uk, he talks to Jason Wood about his new film, My Summer Of Love, and the pressures, pains and pleasures of low-budget filmmaking

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Pocket Essentials: Alfred Hitchcock

Pocket Essentials: Alfred Hitchcock

Ever since the Cahiers du Cinema first began championing Hitchcock as one of the great auteurs, the portly master of suspense has been a regular feature of every film studies syllabus. Deryck Swan reviews the latest book on Hitchcock’s work

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The Homecoming

The Homecoming

This film version of Harold Pinter’s classic play was directed by Peter Hall, best-known as an experimental theatre practitioner. Lee Griffiths is impressed by another intriguing release from the American Film Theatre

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The Cinema of Italy

The Cinema of Italy

Italy has had a profound influence on the development of cinema as a modern medium, producing some of the truly great directors – Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Rossellini, to name a few. Edward Lamberti reviews a new overview of Italian cinema from Wallflower Press

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De-Lovely

De-Lovely

The life of the celebrated composer Cole Porter comes to the big screen in this biopic starring Kevin Kline. The main talking point is the director’s decision to update the songs using contemporary performers – Ian Haydn Smith things it was a big mistake

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Butley

It might have been directed by one of Britain’s leading playwrights, Harold Pinter, but be honest – have you ever heard of Butley? Ben McCann reviews The American Film Theatre’s DVD re-release of the film

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Super Size Me

Super Size Me

It’s the film that’s been charged with trying to bring down a corporation, but Morgan Spurlock’s dietary documentary started out as little more than a humble experiment. Calum Wadell reports on the film’s rise to cinematic fame

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