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Awards Journal
Make sure to pick up your free copy of the Awards Journal at your local Curzon. Our annual awards-season magazine, it features interviews with this year's top contenders, category-by-category analysis and considered think pieces, written by our in-house team of experts and the UK's most celebrated film critics.
There's no better time to sign up for a membership so you can catch all of the BAFTA- and Oscar-winners in our cinemas. As well as free tickets, our Classic and Cult memberships include discounts on food, drink and Curzon Home Cinema, among other perks.
Brady Corbet visits us at Curzon Soho and talks about The Brutalist and the importance of filming on celluloid among other things for a new chapter of Conversations @ Curzon.
Oscar-nominated thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig, by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, is the latest film to employ the genre as a means of exploring contemporary events – and criticising social ills. By Ian Haydn Smith
Jesse Eisenberg: I Hear the Characters' Voices in my Mind
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Gabriella Geisinger speaks with writer-director-actor Jesse Eisenberg about crafting his characterful screenplay, balancing tone and finding humour in darkness.
Screenwriters RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes explain how they introduced a surprising first-person perspective to their adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel.
Colman Domingo: I Gave Everything I Could to Sing Sing
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An Oscar hopeful for A24’s poignant carceral drama, Domingo discusses his early career in educational theatre, his transition from character actor to leading man and his efforts to redefine traditional masculinity. By Yasmin Omar
The new Awards Journal – which includes interviews with the season’s top contenders, category-by-category analysis and think pieces – is now available for free in all Curzon cinemas. Here, we share Yasmin Omar's editor's letter, which gives a flavour of what you'll find in the issue.
Though the music biopic has received some bad press recently, that hasn’t always been the case. Rōgan Graham looks at the subgenre’s creatively rich offerings – a group to which Kneecap certainly belongs.
Conclave & The Characters who Use God for Personal Gain
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Edward Berger’s papal potboiler reveals the self-serving unscrupulousness of holy men. Here, Victoria Luxford considers cinema’s sinister ministers, from There Will Be Blood to The Night of the Hunter.