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Inside Out 2012: ‘My Brother the Devil’, the British kid with a bike

My Brother the Devil Written and directed by Sally El Hosaini UK, 2011 Although from East London, fourteen-year-old Mo (Fady Elsayed) and his older brother Rashid (James Floyd) speak an entirely different language. On the treacherous streets of Hackney, England, gang members are endeared with familial names, with people often calling each other ‘fam’ or …

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With ‘The Kid With A Bike’, the Dardenne’s continue their distinctly modernist update of the morally committed cinema of Dryer and Bresson

The Kid With A Bike Written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Belgium | France | Italy – 2011 When we talk about modernism in cinema, we are talking about filmmaking that acknowledges the medium as part of the storytelling, a melding of form and content so that the images on screen portray …

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55th BFI London Film Festival: ‘The Kid with a Bike’ another brilliant example of no-frills Dardennes film-making

The Kid with a Bike / Le Gamin au Vélo Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Written by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne France/Belgium/Italy, 2011 The style of brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne might not sound immediately appealing to someone who has never seen one of their films. The Belgians usually avoid working with big stars, …

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Telluride Festival Primary Lineup Announced: New Films From David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog and more

The Telluride Film Festival, a presentation of the National Film Preserve which takes place beginning tomorrow, Friday Sept 2 and runs through Monday Sept 5, has announced the first list of films set to screen during the five day run. One of the reasons that Telluride is so special is because the festival doesn’t announce …

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