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Features | Tuesday, 08 June 2010 Written by Gabriel Solomons
Widescreen: Bullet scarred outdoor cinema (Kabul, Afghanistan)
It's worth remembering that while we in the profligate 'west' ponder cinema's fate - with seemingly endless developments offering us even more choice as to how and where we interact with film - there are some places that don't afford their inhabitants the same kind of freedoms. The image above then, by celebrated photographer Simon Norfolk, should act as a stark reminder of just how fortunate we are.
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Features | Monday, 31 May 2010 Written by Jez Conolly
Screengem: Ol’ Painless (Predator, 1987)
‘Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion’. So said that famous raconteur and aesthete ‘Stormin’ Norman Schwartzkopf. When John McTiernan dropped his crack troupe of commandos into a Central American jungle meat-grinder in the film Predator he made sure they were packing more than their accordions. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Ol’ Painless.
Features | Thursday, 27 May 2010 Written by Nicola Balkind
Spotlight: Almost Human
Since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have been preoccupied with robots and their roles within the human world. From Fritz Lang's humanoid robot in Metropolis to GERTY, the companion robot in last year's Moon, our conception of robots is coloured by their human traits. Nicola Balkind looks at five films that exemplify the anthropomorphosis of robots onscreen.
Recommended | Monday, 24 May 2010 Written by Jez Conolly
Recommended: Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff (Craig McCall 2010)
A few years ago I was fortunate enough to be in the audience for a special screening of Powell and Pressburger's A Matter Of Life And Death (1946) introduced with a talk by the late, great cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Jack was in his late 80s then but the spectrum of colours that he mastered during in his career still twinkled in his eyes. Craig McCall's new documentary Cameraman celebrates Cardiff's life and work.
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