Articles

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Articles

A banned satire and a forced move to New York

A bicycle prize, a Bogotá audition and two albums that did not sell

A career turned on a part its author feared was unplayable

A choosy director and a career of cancelled films

A closing scene that people gathered to re-enact

A coup film that never names Chile

A day and a night in Milan: how La Notte stages a marriage ending

A death, a note and a verdict that would not stay settled

A director before he was a star singer

A documentary frame around one shepherd, and a father the film never explains

A drama that became a campaign and a political argument

A factory worker, a children's home and a Golden Bear

A fake film inside a real one

A fictional Denmark built from the real one

A film made in the thaw: Man of Iron between Solidarity and the ban

A film that began as a dream and reads like one

A film that went through four titles before it opened

A gardener, a television screen and a walk across the water

A granted wish and a wife's sacrifice in Gate of Hell

A Japanese format and its long line of hosts

A journalist whose polemics reached a German court: Henryk M. Broder

A Kahlo biopic that took more than a decade and several rival projects to reach the screen

A legal pad, a 1.2 million dollar budget and a small opening

A marriage of convenience between a widower and a runaway, and the prizes it won

A mixtape director and an early crowdfunded film

A name made by the studio and a decade of B Westerns

A name won in a contest and two careers built by reinvention

A neo-realist fable that turns to fantasy

A news agency built as an instrument of state: the Soviet network behind TASS

A one week script, a two hour forty five minute first cut

A pay cut, a film studio and the birth of the rerun

A play inside a film, and an empty seat at the Oscars

A playwright in search of a theme, and a film that was cut

A screenplay found while shooting

A screenplay meant for sale, and the film it became

A Shakespearean stage actor who expected Star Trek to fail

A sidekick who thinks he is the hero and a race against The Golden Child

A silent film villain who directed in two countries: Reinhold Schünzel

A slow route to stardom, a bold middle act and a return

A small film made possible by television

A teen idol whose singing voice was borrowed

A television film that premiered at Sundance, told through one organiser

A thesis film held back by its soundtrack

A thriller that bets against its own audience

A trilogy told backward, in the sounds of a forest

A true night on the steppe that became a film

A true story that was not, and a series that kept restarting

A twenty-year silence, a collapsed budget and a crowded cast

A two-hander born of a budget

A universe assembled after the fact: how standalone spy films were joined