Great Freedom review for Sight & Sound

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Sebastiane Meise’s film about gay incarceration in postwar Germany finds the value of holding and being held tight when it counts.

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Minyan review for Sight & Sound

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A portrait of Jewish and queer intergenerationality proposes collective agency as a version of hope.

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Ellie and Abbie (and Abbie’s Dead Aunt) review for Sight & Sound

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Monica Zanetti’s lesbian romance makes homophobia a historical issue, summoning a ghost of the queer past for high school advice.

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Martyr review for Sight & Sound

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A waterfront in Beirut is a place for escape and langurous pleasure in Mazen Khaled’s sensual exploration of male corporeality, both in life and in death

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Derek Jarman exhibition preview for Sight & Sound

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Two retrospective shows in Manchester and Southampton reveal the urgent timeliness of Jarman’s politics, art and life to Britain today.

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Interview with Oliver Hermanus about Moffie for Sight & Sound

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The South African director talks about male sexual stigma and fear in a paranoid nation.

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Sorry Angel review for Sight & Sound

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Gay identity, queer family, laughter and grief play out in Christophe Honoré’s semi-autobiographical feature set in 1990s Paris.

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120 BPM review for Sight & Sound

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Enthralling, devastating, revelatory, galvanising, fragile: on Robin Campillo’s superbly queer feature about ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s.

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Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin for Sight & Sound

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An interview about how Iannucci’s new film raises the satirical stakes and the challenges of engaging with a new politics that is less about winning an agreed game than defining reality.

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Mink Stole and Divine in Multiple Maniacs

Multiple Maniacs review for Sight & Sound

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A review of the Bluray release of John Waters’s outrageous 1970 proto-punk masterpiece starring Divine and the Dreamland gang.

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