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20 May 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Critic and director Mark Cousins is receiving rave reviews at Cannes for his inspirational film about cinema and childhood. He tells Charlotte Higgins why it's the decade of the cine-essay

You can tell a lot about Mark Cousins from his tattoos. The Edinburgh-based, Belfast-born presenter, critic and film-maker, whose richly poetic A Story of Children and Film has just premiered to five-star reviews at Cannes, has arms inscribed with words. There's "Forough" on his right. That's Forough Farrokhzad, "the first great Iranian film director," he says. "Her The House Is Black is one of the greatest movies ever made." On his left there's "Le Corbusier", the French architect; and "Eisenstein", the Russian director about whom he recently made a film while undertaking a three-day tramp through Mexico City.

Then, on the inside of his left arm, are the words "the oar and the winnowing fan". This is a reference to »

- Charlotte Higgins

17 May 2013 9:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A nimble and distinctive cine-essay featuring a mosaic of clips, images and moments of children in the movies

This has to be one of the most beguiling events at Cannes, appropriately presented in the Cannes Classics section. Mark Cousins's personal cine-essay about children on film is entirely distinctive, sometimes eccentric, always brilliant: a mosaic of clips, images and moments chosen with flair and grace, both from familiar sources and from the neglected riches of cinema around the world. Without condescension or cynicism, Cousins offers us his own humanist idealism, as refreshing as a glass of iced water.

He presents movie texts which illuminate and challenge what we imagine to be the "performance" presented to the camera by a child, what we take to be the nature of childhood and by implication the unexamined "adultness" of those grownups variously appearing in, making or watching the film. He suggests that as an artform, »

- Peter Bradshaw

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

3 April 2013 9:35 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

They see everything and say nothing, inhabiting a half-way world full of contradictions. But what are the five best films about live-in domestics?

This week's Clip joint is by Claire Adas, an independent film-maker and freelance writer based in Lambertville, NJ. Claire writes about film, food and life at her blog Out of the Ordinary. If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.

They might live in your home, but they're not part of the family. They know more about you than any of your acquaintances, but you wouldn't call them friends. They care for your most treasured possessions, or they care for your greatest treasure of all – your children – but they're not accorded the admiration of a person who owns fine things, or the respect of a parent. Such is the strange existence of live-in domestics, men and »

- Guardian readers

11 January 2013 6:48 AM, PST | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »

Manish Paul, the popular television anchor and VJ, is making his debut with film Mickey Virus directed by debutant Saurabh Varma. While the director was keen on taking an established actress for the film, Manish was keen on having someone new to ensure a fresh pairing. Little did they know that, the girl they chose after auditioning 200 girls would be someone who has her roots deeply connected in films.

Elli Avram, who has been finalized to play the lead opposite Manish, is from Greece and is the daughter of Swedish actress Maria Granlund who has worked with Ingmar Bergman in Oscar winning film Fanny and Alexander and has been doing a lot of theatre in Sweden. Says director Saurabh, "We had approached few known female actors for the lead opposite Manish, but later we decided to cast a new face. We chose Elli through auditions because she fitted the bill perfectly. »

- Bollywood Hungama News Network

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