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Director’s chair: Lee Changdong
Ten tips for aspiring filmmakers
By Lee Changdong
Naughty list: screen culture’s bad guys strike at Christmas
By George Bass
Anime: the little word that conquered the world
By Nick Bradshaw
Horror in fancy clothes: the 1990s cycle of prestige monster movies
By Anna Bogutskaya
Where to begin with James Cameron
By Josh Slater-Williams
No man’s land: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire
By Isabel Stevens
Georges Méliès: the silver lining
By Georges Méliès
Papers, plans, diagrams: the making of The Draughtsman’s Contract
By Josephine Botting
This forgotten BBC play about Casanova is a valuable rediscovery
By Dick Fiddy
Where to begin with the Dardenne brothers
By Geoff Andrew
The view from Marrakech: Jeremy Irons and the best of the festival
By Lou Thomas
Attack of the zeros and ones: the early years of digital cinema, as told by David Lynch, Miranda July, Michael Mann and more
By Samuel Wigley
“Liberty is conquered only through mechanics”: the radical cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
By Tag Gallagher
The monstrous power of gaming’s beasts
By Stuart Burnside
Despatches from Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2022
By Georgia Korossi
bell hooks on cinema: a remembrance
By Jan Asante
Poll position: in praise of Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
By Kim Newman
The manor house from The Draughtsman’s Contract: how it looks today
By Adam Scovell
Uncertain spells: the morality of gaming’s witches
By Stuart Burnside