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Look Back review: Drawing closer (opens the original)
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Reviewed from the 2026 Venice Film Festival The central image of Koreeda Hirokazu’s Look Back references its title in an unexpectedly literal sense. A young girl sits in her room at her desk, working by hand on manga illustrations. Later in the film, this same image repeats: the young woman seated at a kitchen counter; in a school classroom; then as an adult in an office space. We watch her work, the camera placed behind her at a distance. Koreeda is implying that, to truly understand an artist,
Gregg Araki on I Want Your Sex: “The despair of the bad makes the euphoria of the good even more intense” (opens the original)
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Gregg Araki acutely captured the 90s alternative zeitgeist with his ‘Teen Apocalypse Trilogy’ (Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, Nowhere), a trio of pop-punk arthouse hangout movies that established him as a leading beacon of the New Queer Cinema movement. In the 2000s, he attracted mainstream attention with PTSD sci-fi Mysterious Skin (2004) and stoner comedy Smiley Face (2007). Driven by vibes and powered by tastemaking shoegaze soundtracks, Araki’s films are defined by their characters’
Bouchra review: beast mode (opens the original)
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Bouchra is many things. She’s a queer filmmaker living in New York; an expat; a lover; a daughter; a jackal-headed human. Animated in Blender, the 3D software best-known for being used by Gints Zilbalodis to craft the Oscar-winning Flow (2024), Bouchra is the feature debut of Morocco-born visual artist Meriem Bennani (who voices the semi-autobiographical title character) and Israel-born documentarian Orian Barki. Their film follows in the wake of 2 Lizards (2020), an Instagram-serialised animati
John Waters on restoring Hairspray and Desperate Living: “The mistakes are part of the charm” (opens the original)
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When his films first shocked, charmed, and terrorised theatres in the 70s and 80s, John Waters was an unlikely candidate for mainstream canonisation. But here we are, with six of his feature films now released in lovingly restored Blu-ray editions from The Criterion Collection – joining this month are Hairspray (1988) and Desperate Living (1977). Waters’ most mainstream success, PG-rated dance comedy Hairspray found an audience on home video and went on to spawn a successful musical – which itse
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