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Steve McQueen’s Blitz, by turns gripping and didactic, locates solidarity in desperate survivalism

The artist and film-maker’s historical feature about London during the Battle of Britain frames it as a traumatic experience that cut through ossified strata of class and racial hierarchy

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Lytton Strachey foxes Julianne Moore in Pedro Almodóvar film

The actor's failure to correctly pronounce the name of Bloomsbury Group writer leaves some viewers baffled

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A dual social and artistic purpose: London's Whitechapel Gallery to screen films by Jarman Award nominees

Ahead of the announcement of the 2024 Film London Jarman Award winner on 25 November, Whitechapel gallery will show entries by all six shortlisted artists

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William Kentridge argues with himself in streaming series

The artist’s nine-episode series "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot" celebrates creative optimism during the Covid-19 lockdowns

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Fourteen-hour film on Documenta 14 foreshadows the bureaucracy and culture wars that followed

At 840 minutes, “exergue - on documenta 14” exhaustively chronicles all that went right and wrong with Adam Szymczyk’s edition of Documenta in Kassel and Athens, though the actual art gets surprisingly little screen time

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A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude

The film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire” is showing at the New York Film Festival

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The liberated lens: a chronicle of African cinema and photography

A new book celebrates the pioneering artists who took control of the post-colonial agenda

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The Brutalist asks who owns the memory of the Holocaust and who defines an artist’s legacy

Brady Corbet’s new film, feted at the Venice International Film Festival and now playing at the New York Film Festival, follows a Jewish, Bauhaus-trained architect adjusting to life and work in the US after the Second World War

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Rediscovered at Tate Liverpool after more than 50 years, Barry Flanagan's 'the works' will soon go on show in London

The long-lost film, which was found during renovation works, will be turned into a performance in a Georgian house during Frieze week

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'The government wants to silence these voices': Peru’s new film funding law raises censorship fears for artists

The country’s film sector and wider creative industries are wary of new laws governing the type of projects that can receive state financing

New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday

Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession

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New repatriation documentary chronicles Indigenous groups’ struggles to recover artefacts from collectors and museums

The Canadian documentary “So Surreal: Behind the Masks” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival

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New film on Ernest Cole, photographer who chronicled South African apartheid, presents trove of 60,000 rediscovered negatives

Raoul Peck’s new documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”, having its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is narrated by Lakeith Stanfield

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Film composed of 1,500 paintings depicting ancient Jewish civil strife struggles to find an audience outside Israel

A version of “Legend of Destruction” with English voiceover acting by Oscar Isaac, Elliott Gould and others will screen in the US and internationally this month

Francis Alÿs shows that child’s play is a serious business

The Belgian artist transforms the Barbican Art Gallery into a cinematic playground

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Pioneering gay photographer George Platt Lynes is ready for his closeup

Lynes, whose homoerotic images from the first half of the 20th century have had relatively little exposure, is the subject of a new documentary

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Experimental silent films by Man Ray, restored and with new scores, return to the big screen

Four short films May Ray made in the 1920s are being re-released with new music by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band SQÜRL

New documentary tracks the return of looted art from France to Benin

Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”, which won top honours at the Berlin International Film Festival, takes a pensive and unconventional approach to its subject

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Ten artists receive €100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2024

The second edition of the biennial award, which acknowledges practitioners across art, film, theatre and more, also grants two years of mentorship and inclusion in a global networking programme

Yang Fudong: ‘It’s a silent movie, Hong Kong is the soundtrack’

The Chinese artist and filmmaker reveals the inspirations behind his silent film made for the M+ Facade, a tribute to the beauty of Hong Kong and the process of ageing

Andy Warhol’s filmed portraits of celebrities head to Hollywood

Christie’s and the Andy Warhol Museum are staging a pop-up show of the artist’s “Screen Tests” during Frieze Los Angeles

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Ben Whishaw to play photographer Peter Hujar in upcoming film

The as-yet untitled film will be directed by Ira Sachs, who just directed Whishaw in the critically acclaimed film "Passages"

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Was Rauschenberg’s grand prize win at the 1964 Venice Biennale a US plot, or just good PR?

A new documentary delves into the machinations that led to the upstart American artist’s stunning triumph at the art world’s Olympics

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Ghosts in the streets: Steve McQueen documentary delves into the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam

The four-hour film, shot mostly during the Covid-19 pandemic, opens in the US on Christmas Day

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The visual thrill of the legendary filmmakers Powell and Pressburger

A rich exploration of the artistry of the film-making duo, founders of the Archers production company, who directed some of the most influential films in the history of cinema, from “A Matter of Life and Death” to “The Red Shoes”

A brush with... Sutapa Biswas

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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‘Black American confidence is really powerful to me’: Garrett Bradley on the role of transparency and music in her filmmaking

The winner of the 2023 Eye Art & Film Prize also discusses the challenge of eliciting a “360-degree experience” and her interest in Italian new wave cinema

A film-maker shares affliction and inspiration with Paul Klee

In his new documentary “Angel Applicant”, Ken August Meyer finds solace in the late works of Klee, who likewise suffered from scleroderma

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A documentary portrait of the artist as a young woman fighting to live and make work

In “Apolonia, Apolonia”, Lea Glob tracks the fitful ascent of French painter Apolonia Sokol and captures something elemental about the artistic spirit

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Oscar-nominated director Garrett Bradley wins 2023 Art & Film prize

The artist and filmmaker will receive $30,000 to put towards a new work