Contents 2010: The year in review: Nick James introduces the results of this year's annual S&S poll, in which 85 contributors from around the world pick the top five films they saw in 2010, and their other movie highlights of the past 12 months

Memento mori: O

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Howard Hawks: Slim and the silver fox: The years Howard Hawks spent with his second wife Nancy - aka 'Slim' - were the richest of his film-directing career, as her style and influence inspired him to live out a recurring dream of their relati

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Lost and found: The Watcher in the Woods: What's the missing link between Tron, The Legend of Hell House and a big blue alien? For Joseph Stannard, it's Disney's cult 1980 fantasy The Watcher in the Woods

Jafar Panahi: the green badge of

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The pride and the passion: 25 years of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival


After a groundbreaking quarter of a century, the LLGFF is still relevant, says programmer Brian Robinson

Lost and found: The Red House


Filmmaker Cha

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Bernardo Bertolucci: Just like starting over


To mark a comprehensive Bertolucci retrospective, Tony Rayns looks back at the early 1960s, when the great Italian director hit his stride and emerged from the shadow of his mentors, Pasolini

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Lost and found: Across the Bridge:

A model of adaptation, Across the Bridge cleverly expands Graham Greene's original short story, says the screenwriter Paul Mayersberg

The old soldier: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme:

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Tarnished angel: Miss Bala: The story of a would-be beauty queen who falls foul of Mexico's drug gangs, Miss Bala is more than just another document of Latin America's social ills, says Paul Julian Smith

Cover feature: BFI London Film Fes

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Michael Shannon: trouble in mind: For years Michael Shannon has been building a reputation as an intense, risk-taking actor on stage and in supporting roles. But his compelling turn as the dream-haunted everyman in Take Shelter proves he can