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Film Review
15 Aug 2010
Mother (Madeo 2009)
Writer/director Joon-ho Bong presents a compelling and darkly comic look at the lengths a mother will go to in order to protect her child.

Film Review
15 Aug 2010
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
A larger than life biopic about the larger than life musician, artist, poet and all time party animal.

Film Review
28 Jun 2010
Vengeance (Fuk sau) - (2009)
A chef on a mission (Johnny Halladay) seeks revenge when his daughter's family are slaughtered by triads in Johnny To's baroque tragedy.

Film Review
28 Jun 2010
The Last Station
A gifted young writer is given the opportunity of a lifetime to become personal assistant to Russia's greatest living novelist Leo Tolstoy, but finds his loyalties divided in Michael Hoffman's handsome period drama.

Feature
18 Mar 2010
Festival review: The 60th Berlin Film Festival (11-21 February 2010)
Steven Yates reports from Germany's most famous film festival

Festival review
12 Aug 2009
The 17th Art Film Festival: Trencín and Trencianske Teplice
The art of cinema: Steven Yates reports from the 17th Art Film Festival

Film Review
24 Jun 2009
Somers Town
Steven Yates on Shane Meadows's latest view of Britain

Film Review
28 Nov 2008
Synecdoche, New York (U.S., 2008)
Too cooky can spoil the broth: Sarah Manvel is not very impressed with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut

Film Review
24 Nov 2008
The Class (Entre les murs) (France, 2008)
A lesson in filmmaking: after 21 years, French wins the Palme d'Or with a film set in a school

Interview
21 Nov 2008
Director's chair: Terence Davies
Jan Gilbert chats to the director of the award-winning film Of Time And The City

Online streaming
19 Nov 2008
Night of the Living Dead
The horror classic turns 40!

Book Review
17 Nov 2008
Taboo Breakers by Calum Waddell
A new book by a regular Kamera contributor looks at cinema's taboo busters

Feature
14 Nov 2008
Samurai films
Big in Japan: action packed and with more slaptick violence to leave an army of Tarantinos satisfied ...

DVD Review
9 Nov 2008
The B King: Roger Corman
Optimum Home Entertainment has put out on DVD some previously unpublished Roger Corman gems. Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc lap it up

Feature
3 Nov 2008
Excuse me, Sir ... are you a monster?
Penning a book on a century's worth of Monster Movies proved more than just an exercise in research for Emma Westwood. Not only were there 'categories' of monsters that needed considering, but it appears 'monster' means different things to different people...

Film Review
31 Oct 2008
Hunger
Steve McQueen's film strikes a dissonant chord with Sarah Manvel

Film Review
28 Oct 2008
Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos, Italy, 2008)
Antonio Grimaldi's film is an emotional take on bereavement, with many fine moments - and some cringe-worth ones too...

Film Review
25 Oct 2008
Waltz With Bashir (Israel/Germany/France, 2008)
Animating memory: the 1982 Lebanon war gets the Waking Life treatment

Feature
22 Oct 2008
Slurry is the Hardest Word - On the Road with The Animals Film
The researcher on the classic, vegetarian-maker The Animals Film, describes his experience during shooting in America

News Item
22 Oct 2008
Mayor of London pledges support for film in the capital
Boris Johnson meets with key players from London's production industry, announces plans to bring more film to all Londoners and welcomes pioneering legislation by London Councils and Transport for London

Online streaming
20 Oct 2008
Blood Actually
A script with a bite: Paul Hardy's Blood Actually shows you how to sink your teeth into filmmaking

Feature
14 Oct 2008
Preview: The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival 2008
The 52nd edition of the Times BFI London Film Festival starts tomorrow. Not a vintage year, says John Atkinson, but still, there is plenty to be excited about

Festival preview
13 Oct 2008
Interview: Lizelle Bisschoff, director of the Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival, Edinburgh, 23 October to 02 November
Nollywood, arthouse cinema, erotica and much more. An African cinema festival in Scotland has it all ...