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“Simple Role Reversals Are Usually Problematic”: It’s Time to Refocus the “Female Gaze”

We should be talking more about the women who are literally behind the camera.

The Mary Sue

Can’t stand subtitles? These 11 international masterpieces will change your mind

Subtitles are everywhere on social media, but on film some see them as an obstacle. In fact, they are an opportunity – containing the potential to unlock cinema’s universality

The Guardian - UK

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon: who knew the end of the world could feel so romantic?

Starring Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn as lovers on the run from shadowy forces in Nicaragua, the French auteur’s quasi-thriller is intentionally puzzling – and all pleasure

The Guardian - AU

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The Fence review – Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire

The French director has made of one her least effective movies with this dull and clunkily adapted version of 1979 play with a miscast Matt Dillon at its centre

The Guardian - US

Mia McKennra-Bruce starring in The Cry of the Guard

Mia McKenna-Bruce has replaced Riley Keough as one of the lead stars in Claire Denis' film 'The Cry of the Guard'.

BANG Premier

Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators

Malick, Ramsay, Bigelow, Denis, Guadagnino, Zhao: cinema’s most exciting visionaries are all back with new films this year. And then there’s Iñárritu directing Tom Cruise …

The Guardian - UK

‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures

The French-Senegalese film-maker on winning the top prize at Berlin for her otherworldly new work, cultural identity and her beef with Beyoncé

The Guardian - UK

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Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema

It was the year when arthouse brains met Hollywood brawn. But what made the last 12 months of the 90s so special? These films tell the story

The Guardian - UK

5 movies like Netflix's 'Spaceman' but better

Want to watch science fiction movies like 'Spaceman' that are higher rated? Here are our recommendations.

Tom’s Guide

Stars at Noon review – edgy expat drama from Claire Denis

A broke young American woman in Nicaragua gets together with a suave Englishman in the veteran French director’s unsettling mood piece

The Guardian - UK

‘Protege! Would you use that word for a man?’ Claire Denis on rum, Africa and rethinking MeToo

Choose your words carefully with France’s most brilliant – and formidable – film director, as she discusses being bourgeois, Harvey Weinstein, and her latest movie, Stars at Noon

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Qualley: ‘People with the best intentions can do dumb things’

She might be Hollywood royalty, but, as Laura Antonia Jordan finds out, Margaret Qualley is happiest at home, organising her spice drawer

Evening Standard

Disco Boy review – freaky trip into the heart of imperial darkness

Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama follows Belarusian Aleksei on his journey into the French Foreign Legion and a very strange epiphany in the Niger Delta

The Guardian - UK

Oscars 2023: 10 women directors deserving attention

Shortly after the Golden Globes nominations were announced earlier this month, the advocacy group Women in Film took to social media, decrying the "shocking" omission of critically acclaimed female directors, citing Sarah Polley ("Women Talking"), Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Woman King"), Chinonye Chukwu ("Till") and Maria Schrader ("She Said").

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The 'greatest film of all time': Chantal Akerman's win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 hypnotic study of a mother performing domestic chores in microscopic detail – has just been crowned the “greatest film of all time” in Sight and Sound’s prestigious poll.

The Independent UK

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll: The 2022 results are in – and there’s a new winner

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ was pushed into second place

ABC News

Stars at Noon finds Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley in a steamy love affair in present-day Nicaragua

Cannes prize-winner Stars at Noon stars Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley as two expats consumed by a torrid love affair, against a backdrop of violence, corruption and intrigue.

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best love triangle films

Claire Denis’s Both Sides of the Blade, starring Juliette Binoche, joins other classics where three’s a crowd, from The Piano to The Favourite

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You can thank this French film for bringing Swift and Antonoff together on 'Midnights'

There is an unlikely art house inspiration behind the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on her acclaimed new album, "Midnights": French filmmaker Claire Denis' "Stars at Noon."

The Guardian - UK

What links the 1975 to Alicia Vikander and Jack Antonoff?

Go down the rabbit hole to discover how Matty Healy is just a few degrees away from Hollywood stars and super producers

Los Angeles Times

Review: Claire Denis’ erotic thriller ‘Stars at Noon’ emits the sweat smell of sexcess

Few filmmakers can evoke, as fully as Claire Denis does, the intoxication and menace of feeling cast adrift in a world where you don’t belong. Think of the French coffee-plantation owner in “White Material,” clinging desperately to the war-torn African country she’s claimed as her own, even as it tries…

Evening Standard

Stars at Noon trailer: Joe Alwyn thriller film teased by A24

If you love a good thriller, this new Claire Denis film could be one for you

The Guardian - UK

‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute

He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?

The Guardian - US

‘Nepo baby’ fall preview: new films and TV from children of famous parents

The offspring of Denzel, Uma, Phoebe, Andie and Judd – and a Gainsbourg for good measure – follow in their parents’ celebrated paths

The Guardian - UK

Both Sides of the Blade review – Claire Denis’s love triangle thriller lacks chemistry

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon are both intense, except when they’re together, in a romantic drama weighed down by backstory

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