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WELCOME TO DOLLYWOOD

A rhinestoned tour through the films, songs and screen personas that turned Dolly Parton into a cinematic language.

Gillian Anderson Wants to Make You Scream

The actor on blood, desire, liberation and the strange pleasure of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

Stacy Martin Directed Her First Short Film to Give Her Grandmother the Story Back

The filmmaker talks about her new film drawn from a real, traumatic and complicated event in her own family, and why she couldn't accept the victim being pushed to the sidelines.

Sophie Thatcher Under the Influence

The actor on Gena Rowlands’s explosive physicality, the queasy intimacy of Cassavetes’s family filmmaking and why watching A Woman Under the Influence could make or break your relationship.

CLUB CINÉ CURATES - AUGUST EDITION

From the BFI’s long-overdue celebration of Monica Vitti to Gregg Araki’s gloriously filthy return, August serves up a heady mix of stories, styles and sensations. Here’s our handpicked edit.

Hans Ulrich Obrist on Agnès Varda, Chance and the Only Thing That Matters in the End

The Serpentine's artistic director on the friendship that shaped his thinking about art, and the last thing Varda told him before she died.

David Thomson Is Still Arguing With Hollywood

At 85, the legendary critic reflects on the decline of moviegoing, the democratisation of criticism and why cinema may never recover from its own influence.

Club Ciné Wants Your Six - And Hans Ulrich Obrist Goes First

In our new franchise, one cultural figure pens six handwritten love letters to films that have had an indelible impact on them. The Artistic Director of The Serpentine invites us into his curious mind

The Romance of Disagreement

David Thomson on the chemistry, friction and emotional intelligence of Lubitsch’s great workplace romance.

Olivia Wilde Wants You to Laugh First. Then She Wants You to Talk About It.

Inside Club Ciné's screening of The Invite with it's director Wilde, co-star Edward Norton, co-writer Rashida Jones and London's culturati in heated debate at the bar afterwards

Here's What Club Ciné Editors Are Excited About in July

A legendary film critic returns with a new book, compelling new seasons at MoMA, Criterion and Museum of the Moving Image plus some great films.

Hand to Hand: The Queer Films We Pass On

The films that became obsessions, companions and personal mythology.