Film
Chair: Anna Smith
Vice Chair: Rich Cline
Secretary: Karen Krizanovich
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News & Reviews
Hockney dispels Shadows
On 3rd October 2018, Britain's foremost artist David Hockney received the Critics' Circle award for Distinguished Service to Art. The relaxed ceremony took place over lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club, London, a beautiful venue with access through long french windows...
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Free Oleg Sentsov: CC award winners support PEN’s campaign
London Critics’ Circle Film Award winners Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have joined a host of writers and filmmakers supporting PEN International’s Free Oleg Sentsov campaign, writes PEN's Sheila Bailey. Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian writer and film director, was detained in...
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Michael Inside
Mansel Stimpson writes about an Irish film that confronts truths about the bad influence that prison can have. The tone established by writer/director Frank Berry is enormously important here. Michael Inside is, as the very title suggests, a film about being in prison...
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Jaws in Concert at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
by Anna Smith, President, The Critics' Circle. When I think of Jaws, I often think of my friend Kirsten, who first saw it as a child, in hospital after having had her tonsils out. When her visiting aunt nodded off in front of the TV in her private room, she was forced...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind – in concert
By Anna Smith I’ve become a bit of a regular at the Royal Albert Hall’s ‘in concert’ series: it’s a certainly an impressive place to watch classic movies with a live orchestral soundtrack. Back to the Future and Amadeus raised the roof, and Raiders of the Lost Ark was...
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Leave No Trace
A delayed follow-up to Winter's Bone gives Debra Granik a second triumphant drama By Mansel Stimpson It was Debra Granik's second feature, Winter's Bone of 2010, that brought stardom to Jennifer Lawrence, but that film also won enormous acclaim in its own right. Its...
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Between Tragedy and Broken Dreams
Mohammed Rouda discusses five recent films about the Syrian War It is natural that war in Syria, which has been raging for seven years, should provide film-makers with subjects to express their beliefs and views. The same goes for events since 2010 in other Arab...
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10 films to see at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
From edgy British indies to family favourites, Anna Smith picks 10 promising films to watch out for in this year’s selection. Puzzle EIFF regular Kelly Macdonald plays a jigsaw genius in character-driven drama that’s opening the festival on Wednesday. Lucid Can lucid...
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