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Each December, we invite Notebook contributors to pair a new release with an older film they watched for the first time that year, creating a “fantasy double feature.” In practice, this offers something like a collective viewing diary, speaking to the breadth of moving-image art and the imagination of our writers. Even a quick scroll through this year’s doubles—dreamed up and defended by over 60 Notebook contributors—reveals an inspired bounty. Where else would you find Ulrike Ottinger on a bill with Adam Curtis or Jackass Forever?Our annual poll, now in its fifteenth year, is less about anointing the best than it is about bottling the year’s energy. What unexpected resonances arise between the past and present?CONTRIBUTORSArun A.K. | Jennifer Lynde Barker | Juan Barquin | Margaret Barton-Fumo | Rafaela Bassili | Joshua Bogatin | Anna Bogutskaya | Danielle Burgos | Adrian Curry | Frank Falisi | The Ferroni Brigade | Soham Gadre | Lawrence Garcia | Sean...
- 1/6/2023
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No year in review would be complete without a thank-you to our writers. Time and again, they reminded us that cinema is not only alive and well, but it is also always transforming; the filmmakers and festivals covered here push the boundaries of what we took for granted about the medium.Here’s a quick overview of what we published in 2022—and, for many more excellent pieces, we encourage you to browse our archive using the “explore” tab on the homepage.ESSAYSContemporary Cinema:When Propaganda Fails: Adam McKay's Don't Look Up by Ryan MeehanThe Horse in Motion: Jordan Peele's Nope by Blair McClendonThe Many Faces of Michelle Yeoh by Sean GilmanHall of Mirrors: James Gray's Armageddon Time and Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans by Kelli WestonNameless Energies: Don DeLillo at the Movies by Leonardo GoiThe Voice of a Generation: The Trope of the "Complex Female Character" by Rafaela BassiliHong...
- 1/4/2023
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For the tenth time in 11 years, the Locarno Film Festival is hosting 10 international film critics from various stages of development during the 10 days of the A-list Swiss festival.
Coming from places as far from the Swiss resort town as Bangalore, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta, and from an even more varied matrix of backgrounds, disciplines, writing styles, and interests, participants in the anniversary edition of the Critics Academy will have the chance to interact face-to-face with a wealth of major critics, programmers, and filmmakers in attendance at Locarno.
Returning after one aborted edition in the first year of the pandemic and another for which there was no public call for applications, Locarno’s incubator for aspiring professional critics takes place once again in the midst of an extraordinarily trying moment both for the art and commerce of cinema but also, perhaps even more acutely, for writing about it.
While...
Coming from places as far from the Swiss resort town as Bangalore, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta, and from an even more varied matrix of backgrounds, disciplines, writing styles, and interests, participants in the anniversary edition of the Critics Academy will have the chance to interact face-to-face with a wealth of major critics, programmers, and filmmakers in attendance at Locarno.
Returning after one aborted edition in the first year of the pandemic and another for which there was no public call for applications, Locarno’s incubator for aspiring professional critics takes place once again in the midst of an extraordinarily trying moment both for the art and commerce of cinema but also, perhaps even more acutely, for writing about it.
While...
- 8/5/2022
- by Christopher Small
- Variety Film + TV
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“We apologise to the signatories for not communicating better.”
The Sheffield Doc/Fest board of trustees have apologised to the festival’s outgoing programming team for “not communicating better” after their contracts ended following the departure of Cintia Gil as festival director due to “artistic differences” earlier this month.
On Friday (August 27) programmers Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger - who worked on the festival’s 2020 and 2021 editions - claimed in an open letter that after Gil’s departure they were “silently locked out of our email accounts and all traces of...
The Sheffield Doc/Fest board of trustees have apologised to the festival’s outgoing programming team for “not communicating better” after their contracts ended following the departure of Cintia Gil as festival director due to “artistic differences” earlier this month.
On Friday (August 27) programmers Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger - who worked on the festival’s 2020 and 2021 editions - claimed in an open letter that after Gil’s departure they were “silently locked out of our email accounts and all traces of...
- 8/31/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
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The Sheffield Doc/Fest board of trustees has apologized to its programming team who departed on acrimonious terms last week, following the departure of artistic director Cintia Gil.
In an emotional statement last week, the festival’s group of seven programmers — Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger — spoke out about an ugly clash between the festival’s board and its outlook for the event, and the artistic team and their curatorial vision.
On Tuesday, the board of trustees released an apologetic statement that also asked some searching questions of themselves.
“We agree with the signatories of the letter ‘What is a film festival even for?’ that it is an important question to be asking,” the statement said. “And it’s also important to ask, how does an artistic program balance its subjects and perspectives, while simultaneously championing its filmmakers, growing its audiences and engaging its partners.
In an emotional statement last week, the festival’s group of seven programmers — Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger — spoke out about an ugly clash between the festival’s board and its outlook for the event, and the artistic team and their curatorial vision.
On Tuesday, the board of trustees released an apologetic statement that also asked some searching questions of themselves.
“We agree with the signatories of the letter ‘What is a film festival even for?’ that it is an important question to be asking,” the statement said. “And it’s also important to ask, how does an artistic program balance its subjects and perspectives, while simultaneously championing its filmmakers, growing its audiences and engaging its partners.
- 8/31/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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The programmers said they received no note of termination and were told they could “reapply for our jobs when the positions were advertised again.”
The programming team for the 2020-2021 editions of Sheffield Doc/Fest has written an open letter lambasting the festival’s board of trustees following the departure of Cintia Gil as festival director due to “artistic differences” earlier this month.
In a long statement, programmers Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger claim that following Gil’s departure they were “silently locked out of our email accounts and all...
The programming team for the 2020-2021 editions of Sheffield Doc/Fest has written an open letter lambasting the festival’s board of trustees following the departure of Cintia Gil as festival director due to “artistic differences” earlier this month.
In a long statement, programmers Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger claim that following Gil’s departure they were “silently locked out of our email accounts and all...
- 8/27/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
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Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the world’s top gatherings for the documentary industry, is in turmoil as its entire programming team appears to have been quietly terminated following the exit of artistic director Cintia Gil last week.
On Friday, in an emotional statement, the festival’s group of seven programmers — Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger — spoke out about an ugly clash between the festival’s board of trustees and its outlook for the event, and the artistic team and their curatorial vision.
Noting that the entire group has been with the festival since 2019, under former DocsLisboa chief Gil, they claim they were “silently locked out of our email accounts” days after Gil’s departure, which was chalked up to “artistic differences.” The group also notes that “all traces of our presence at the festival—names, photos, information about our...
On Friday, in an emotional statement, the festival’s group of seven programmers — Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger — spoke out about an ugly clash between the festival’s board of trustees and its outlook for the event, and the artistic team and their curatorial vision.
Noting that the entire group has been with the festival since 2019, under former DocsLisboa chief Gil, they claim they were “silently locked out of our email accounts” days after Gil’s departure, which was chalked up to “artistic differences.” The group also notes that “all traces of our presence at the festival—names, photos, information about our...
- 8/27/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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Festival director Cíntia Gil leads the team.
UK non-fiction event Sheffield Doc/Fest has appointed the artistic team that will curate its 2021 hybrid event, including a five-person film programming team.
The 28th edition of the event will run from June 4-13 both online and in Sheffield, providing Covid-19 distancing measures allow at that date.
Former selection committee member Rabz Lansiquot joins associate film programmer Agnès Wildenstein, festival director Cíntia Gil and deputy director Melanie Iredale on the film programming team, with Jamie Allan also joining up as Exchange programmer.
Lansiquot has been a leading member of arts collective sorryyoufeeluncomfortable since...
UK non-fiction event Sheffield Doc/Fest has appointed the artistic team that will curate its 2021 hybrid event, including a five-person film programming team.
The 28th edition of the event will run from June 4-13 both online and in Sheffield, providing Covid-19 distancing measures allow at that date.
Former selection committee member Rabz Lansiquot joins associate film programmer Agnès Wildenstein, festival director Cíntia Gil and deputy director Melanie Iredale on the film programming team, with Jamie Allan also joining up as Exchange programmer.
Lansiquot has been a leading member of arts collective sorryyoufeeluncomfortable since...
- 2/3/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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Above: La Cecilia (1975)“The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.”—Emiliano ZapataMAPS, Lists, Explorations: Reimagining "Reimagining The Land"In March, Sheffield Doc/Fest took the decision to move the majority of their summer program online, saving a section of it for small-scale cinema screenings in the autumn when the city’s cinemas would eventually reopen. There is no way of knowing what the festival might have looked like in a year without a global pandemic, but one area where the distance between what was planned and what became possible seemed particularly great was the proposed retrospective.Curated for the festival by Notebook contributor Christopher Small, the retrospective was intended to be a centerpiece of the festival’s new artistic identity under Cintia Gil, the festival’s inbound director. Titled "Reimagining the Land," across twenty films—mostly prints plus some new restorations—the ambitious series would showcase films exploring agriculture,...
- 10/30/2020
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New international appointments include a selection committee and programme consultants.
UK documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest has completed its international artistic team for the 2020 edition, with a senior programmer, selection committee and programme consultants among the new staff.
The they will report to incoming festival director Cíntia Gil, who was appointed in July after seven years as festival director of DocLisboa in Portugal.
Adam Cook will lead the film programming for Doc/Fest as senior programmer. His most recent role was as founding curator of Canadian independent cinema strand Future//Present at Vancouver International Film Festival, while his previous jobs...
UK documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest has completed its international artistic team for the 2020 edition, with a senior programmer, selection committee and programme consultants among the new staff.
The they will report to incoming festival director Cíntia Gil, who was appointed in July after seven years as festival director of DocLisboa in Portugal.
Adam Cook will lead the film programming for Doc/Fest as senior programmer. His most recent role was as founding curator of Canadian independent cinema strand Future//Present at Vancouver International Film Festival, while his previous jobs...
- 11/21/2019
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Sheffield Doc/Fest director Cíntia Gil, who joined the UK doc event this year after a stint running Portugal’s Doclisboa, has rounded out her selection team. In total, 60% of the team are women.
Adam Cook will lead the film programming team and will be joined by Agnès Wildenstein who is associate programmer. On the selection committee are: Christopher Small, who will also curate Doc/Fest’s 2020 retrospective, Onyeka Igwe, Qila Gill, Rabz Lansiquot, Melanie Iredale (who is also the event’s deputy director and was interim director for the 2019 edition before Gil joined), Patrick Hurley (who has been the Director of Marketplace & Talent at Sheffield Doc/Fest since 2017), and Mita Suri, who is the film programme coordinator. Joining them are consultants from Brazil (Juliano Gomes), the Middle East (Danielle Arbid), Russia (Boris Nelepo), Southeast Asia (Kong Rithdee) and Japan (Yu Shimizu).
Elsewhere, Joe Cutts will lead the festival’s Alternate Realities programmes,...
Adam Cook will lead the film programming team and will be joined by Agnès Wildenstein who is associate programmer. On the selection committee are: Christopher Small, who will also curate Doc/Fest’s 2020 retrospective, Onyeka Igwe, Qila Gill, Rabz Lansiquot, Melanie Iredale (who is also the event’s deputy director and was interim director for the 2019 edition before Gil joined), Patrick Hurley (who has been the Director of Marketplace & Talent at Sheffield Doc/Fest since 2017), and Mita Suri, who is the film programme coordinator. Joining them are consultants from Brazil (Juliano Gomes), the Middle East (Danielle Arbid), Russia (Boris Nelepo), Southeast Asia (Kong Rithdee) and Japan (Yu Shimizu).
Elsewhere, Joe Cutts will lead the festival’s Alternate Realities programmes,...
- 11/20/2019
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGJonathan Glazer's The FallA surprise new short from Jonathan Glazer, entitled The Fall, dropped on BBC Two with little introduction on Sunday night, exposing viewers to 7 minutes of mob violence. “The day I saw a picture of the Trump sons grinning with a dead leopard,” Glazer says, was the inspiration for the harrowing visual centerpiece of the film. The official U.S. trailer for Ken Loach's drama Sorry We Missed You, about a man who decides to be his own boss, only to fall into a harsh and unrelenting gig economy. Diao Yinan returns with The Wild Goose Lake, which follows a gangster and a call-girl on the run from the police. Read our review of the film here. Recommended READINGDennis Hopper, "Peter Fonda (With Tripod)" (1966)On The Guardian, an exclusive look...
- 10/31/2019
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsd.A. Pennebaker, best known for his cinéma vérité-style documentaries (including Don't Look Back and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) has died at the age of 94. Author Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel prize in Literature, has also died, leaving behind a legacy of inimitable influence upon generations of readers. Her career was recently the subject of a documentary, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. Recommended VIEWINGThe estate of Charlie Chaplin has made available a treasure trove of rare videos from the archives, which also features home videos like this one, entitled "Charlie Chaplin Swallows Easter Egg." Museum of Modern Art curator Anne Morra discusses Ida Lupino's Never Fear, Lupino's first credited directorial effort, in a new video essay. The official teaser for Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0, the final film...
- 8/8/2019
- MUBI
For the eighth year in a row, the Locarno Film Festival is playing host to 12 aspiring film critics from around the world as part of the festival’s annual Critics Academy initiative.
Featuring participants from Switzerland, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Mexico, the U.S, the U.K., Nigeria and Czech Republic, the latest edition of the Locarno Critics Academy gives budding journalists the chance to interact with professional critics, programmers and filmmakers in attendance at Locarno.
The two-week long workshop encompasses the various aspects of the work of film critics — from pitching to composing articles to negotiating the world of industry, and finally to adapting their prose style to the working methods of different editors.
As part of the initiative, a collaboration between the Locarno festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (Foc), the Swiss Association of Film Journalists, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Swissinfo,...
Featuring participants from Switzerland, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Mexico, the U.S, the U.K., Nigeria and Czech Republic, the latest edition of the Locarno Critics Academy gives budding journalists the chance to interact with professional critics, programmers and filmmakers in attendance at Locarno.
The two-week long workshop encompasses the various aspects of the work of film critics — from pitching to composing articles to negotiating the world of industry, and finally to adapting their prose style to the working methods of different editors.
As part of the initiative, a collaboration between the Locarno festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (Foc), the Swiss Association of Film Journalists, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Swissinfo,...
- 8/7/2019
- by Christopher Small
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSTo commemorate the 20th anniversary of In The Mood For Love, Wong Kar-wai has confirmed plans to release 4K restorations of all of his films—including the currently out-of-print Chungking Express!—for a theatrical tour in 2020. Recommended VIEWINGWe adored Bruno Dumont's Jeannette, the musical vision of Joan of Arc's childhood. Naturally we're delighted by this first trailer for the Cannes-bound sequel, Joan of Arc.A24 has released the official trailer for Lulu Wang's highly anticipated family drama The Farewell, starring rapper Awkwafina as a woman who returns to China after her grandmother is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.Recommended READINGLaura Dern in David Lynch's Wild at Heart.In a new interview with the New York Times, Laura Dern discusses the multiplicity and elasticity of her most memorable performances, as well as...
- 5/8/2019
- MUBI
Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.AwardsTOP Pickstop 10(1) Transit (Christian Petzold)(2) Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)(3) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)(4) The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)(5) Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)(6) In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)(7) Classical Period (Ted Fendt)(8) Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose)(9) Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda) & Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)(Contributors: Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Celluloid Liberation Front, Adam Cook, David Hudson, Jordan Cronk, Daniel Kasman, Olaf Möller, Michael Pattison, Richard Porton, Christopher Small, Barbara Wurm)Daniel Kasman(1) Season of the Devil (2) The Waldheim Waltz (3) Grass (4) Jamila (5) Foreboding (6) Transit (7) An Elephant Sitting Still (8) Infinite Football (9) In the Realm of Perfection (10) Inland SeaADAM Cook(1) Infinite Football (2) The Tree (3) Season of the Devil (4) Transit (5) Grass (6) In the Realm of Perfection (7) Optimism (8) Isle of Dogs (9) The Waldheim Waltz (10) L.
- 3/6/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGJay-z's great taste in directors continues with the Safdie brothers, who both lent a deft hand for the "Marcy Me" video, which feels like a thematic addendum to their own film Good Time.Ava Duvernay (Selma) also directed this star-studded epic music video for Jay-z's "Family Feud".Who doesn't love pulp movie maestro Samuel Fuller? In the event of their active retrospective of his work, the Cinémathèque française provides this ecstatic montage of a few of his finest films.Recommended READINGPerhaps you missed Sarah Nicole Prickett's incisive recaps of Twin Peaks: The Return for Artforum? If that's the case, you can catch up here. Prickett has shared her final take on Episode 18 and the series overall, and it was well worth the wait. From Alejandro G. Iñárritu to Jia Zhangke—the January/February...
- 1/10/2018
- MUBI
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