53rd London Film Festival: A Round-Up
Edwin MakAbove: Pema Tsedan’s The Search. Now that the red carpets on Leicester Square have furled, the maddening din over square-jawed celebrities, and anthropomorphic foxes recede into distant memory, we can
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53rd London Film Festival: "La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
Matthew FlanaganRevelations were thin on the ground at London Film Festival this year. Despite the exhibition of almost three hundred new films, no cinema turned out to be as exciting, or vital, than that
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53rd London Film Festival: "She, a Chinese" (Guo Xiaolu, UK)
Edwin MakGuo Xiaolu’s first narrative feature is, ostensibly, a portrait of a youth’s (Huang Lu) rites-of-passage in today’s alienating, globalised world. It unravels over three stages. First at her family’s