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Laura Poitras

December 2023

  • The making of an art protest masterpiece … Nan Goldin in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

    Best films of 2023
    Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 9 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary follows artist Nan Goldin on a successful crusade to publicise America’s opioids crisis

March 2023

  • Nope, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Call Jane

    Aliens, activists and art: the five best films added to US streaming this week

    Highlights include Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, the prescient abortion drama Call Jane and Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

January 2023

  • Nan Goldin leading a protest to remove the Sackler name from galleries at the Louvre, Paris, 2022.

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin’s gripping takedown of the Sackler pharma family

  • Nan Goldin is shown in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed addressing a protest in White Plains, New York in 2021.

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin takes on big pharma

December 2022

  • Nan Goldin at home in Brooklyn, New York

    Artist Nan Goldin on addiction and taking on the Sackler dynasty: ‘I wanted to tell my truth’

    Her battle against the billionaires who fuelled the opioid epidemic upended the art establishment. As a film about her life is released, she talks about family tragedy and her journey to activism

September 2022

  • Laura Poitras with the Golden Lion for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

    Laura Poitras’ opioids-crisis documentary wins Golden Lion at Venice film festival

  • The Banshees of Inisherin’s Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Kerry Condon, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson on the red carpet at Venice.

    Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy

January 2019

  • A young man crouched on a horse in the documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening review – visionary doc about lives in Alabama

    Executive produced by Laura Poitras, this documentary RaMell Ross is a revelatory study of African American lives

June 2018

  • A still from Zheng Bo’s video art piece Pteridophilia at Orto Botanico.

    Manifesta 12 review – plant sex, puppets and a dial-a-spy booth

    The migratory European art biennale takes over churches, palazzos and gardens with some of its most provocative political statements yet

August 2017

  • Florence Pugh in Lady Macbeth

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Lady Macbeth; Their Finest; Rules Don’t Apply; Risk and more – reviews

    William Oldroyd’s costume drama has a truly killer line in corsets, while Lone Scherfig offers a very different take on Dunkirk

July 2017

  • Nicola Barker - Portraits<br>Portraits of English novelist and short story writer Nicola Barker photographed in London. Job: 56786 Ref: BMN - Exclusive  (Photo by Photoshot/Getty Images)

    On my radar
    On my radar: Nicola Barker’s cultural highlights

    The novelist on a documentary rich in drama, street art in Shoreditch and her love of small scarves

June 2017

  • Baby Driver

    Five of the best… new films
    Baby Driver, Chubby Funny and Kedi: this week’s best films in the UK

    Edgar Wright’s entertaining car-chase movie roars into town, while Harry Michell stars in a comedy about two aspiring actors. Plus: a social history of Istanbul’s cats
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Laura Poitras’s documentary film <em>Risk</em>

    Risk review – serviceable portrait of Julian Assange's vanity

    Laura Poitras’s documentary about the WikiLeaks founder captures his creepy conceit and celebrity hauteur but leaves important questions unasked
    • Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian Assange was going to be furious’

    • Summer arts preview 2017
      Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years

    • Two sides to every story: Whitney, Tupac, Assange and the trouble with making biopics

November 2016

  • 33 Thomas Street, New York, NY

    Charlie Lyne's home entertainment
    Project X: Laura Poitras homes in on the dark side of the internet

    The director’s new short film descends on a brutalist New York building to sum up the unsettlingly intangible nature of the web

May 2016

  • Laura Poitras believe the US government has launched a 'full-force attack' against Julian Assange

    Laura Poitras on her new Julian Assange film: ‘Few people could stand the pressure he is under’

    The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, is back with a fly-on-the wall view of Julian Assange’s bid to escape extradition
  • Risk film still

    First look review
    Risk review – Laura Poitras skirts safely around Julian Assange in gripping documentary

    Poitras follows Citizenfour with a profile of WikiLeaks founder Assange, which contains some electrifying moments despite its lack of objectivity
  • Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

    WikiLeaks rep: Julian Assange would find life no easier under President Clinton

    Journalist and hacker Jacob Appelbaum says Clinton camp are out to get the WikiLeaks founder, while Laura Poitras, whose documentary about Assange has premiered at Cannes, denies rumours of a falling out
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