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Signs Of Life: On The Transformative Power Of ‘Yi Yi’ 20 Years On

Edward Yang's domestic epic Yi Yi premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 20 years ago this week, where Yang won Best Director. Today, the film is a vital, tender resource on subverting midlife crises and saving lives through cinema, finds Ian Wang
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Dream On: Could ‘9 To 5’ Still Exist, 40 Years Later?

The feelgood workplace comedy saw Dolly Parton team up with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin to take down their sexist, bigoted boss. But with so little having changed for women 40 years later, is it even worth imagining a future?

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The Pioneers Of Post-Truth: Rashomon, 70 Years On

Akira Kurosawa's philosophical samurai film reshaped the cinematic landscape for countless reasons in 1950 – but its political potency remains particularly urgent today, Blaise Radley finds
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Matters Of The Heart: 20 Years On, Is High Fidelity The Best Rom-Com Ever Made?

Despite its disagreeable main characters, Stephen Frears’ record store romp still has plenty to offer for the hopeless romantics of the 2020s. Has there been a better failed and healed love story since? Adam Solomons investigates
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Echoes Of Utopia: 40 Years Of ‘Cruising’

William Friedkin's voyeuristic thriller is oft remembered for its shlocky violence, but equally captures lightning in a bottle in moments of lost queer ecstasy, finds Jack King
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Where Is The Love? 20 Years Of Fight Club

Looking back on David Fincher's now cult picture Fight Club 20 years later, there's much to be uncovered about the story's diffused queerness and the sexual blockage the film describes, finds Steve Erickson
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Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Remembered

To coincide with the release of Mulholland Drive's 4K restoration, Robert Bright looks back at Lynch's masterpiece through the lens of film noir and the city of Los Angeles itself

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Anniversary Feature: Wings of Honneamise Remembered

30 years after it first screened, Hiroyuki Yamaga's Wings Of Honneamise remains just as ambitious and beguiling as ever. Dave Hamilton-Smith takes a look back at this flawed but significant anime classic

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Anniversary Feature: Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun Remembered

On the month of it's 40th anniversary, Dave Hamilton-Smith takes a sneaky peek back at Jesus Franco's redoubtable slice of Euro-sleaze 'Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun' WARNING - SOME IMAGES NSFW
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Damn Dirty Japes: Planet Of The Apes (1963) Revisited

Fifty years after its initial publication - and seven ever-dwindling feature films later - Eli Lee examines Pierre Boulle's classic inversion sci-fi novel and asks if the questions it poses are still relevant today
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A Great Many Plathitudes: The Doom Myth Of Sylvia Plath

Fifty years after her life abruptly ended, and as fresh furore erupts over a newly-designed cover of her seminal novel The Bell Jar, Melissa Bradshaw responds to the pervading myth of Sylvia Plath as the poet who was doomed to end her life
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“Nijinsky Meets Woolworths”: Ziggy Stardust, 40 Years On

As David Bowie's classic hits its fifth decade and gets a deluxe reissue, Matthew Lindsay takes an in-depth look at the significance of the wonderful creation that was Mr Ziggy Stardust

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Cherry Ice Cream Smiles: Duran Duran’s Rio Revisited

Rio was released thirty years ago this week. John Freeman looks back at an archetypal 80s pop album which became Duran Duran's defining moment.
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Colour Me Peach & Black: Prince’s Sign O’ The Times, 25 Years On

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the magnum opus that would ultimately be the undoing of Prince

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