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For Everyone That Follows: The Ballad of Shirley Collins Reviewed

Jude Rogers looks at a recently released documentary on the legendary folk singer and archivist Shirley Collins

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If You Go Down To The Woods: The Ritual Reviewed

Sean Kitching ventures into the forest to observe the first ever adaptation of a novel by Quietus favourite Adam Nevill

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The Lucifer Effect: How Hollywood’s Disease Has Spread

Hannah Smith explains how tomorrow’s filmmakers are corrupted by the Hollywood system before they enter the gates, mimicking behaviours they would otherwise deplore because they want to be part of the club

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Outer Space: Hexus Journal Pick An Experimental Horror Bakers Dozen

To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening, funny and sometimes shocking effect

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‘Ave A Go If You Think You’re Dekkard Enough: Blade Runner 2049 Reviewed

Dennis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece is in cinemas now, Mat Colegate takes a look for The Quietus

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Once More With Feeling: Philip K Dick And Blade Runner

With Blade Runner 2049 in cinemas now, Robert Bright looks back at the interior and exterior worlds of Philip K. Dick

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Philosophy And Neon: What Makes A Good Philip K. Dick Film?

With Blade Runner 2049 released next week, Sep Gohardani takes a look back at film adaptations of Philip K Dick's work and asks what makes them successful, or not as the case may be.

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Why We Should Listen To Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Score As Musique Concrete

Following the sad passing of Master of Horror Tobe Hooper, Charlie Brigden talks to composer Wayne Bell about the work that went in to the soundtrack of his most infamous and terrifying work, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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Score Of The Replicants: What Is It With Ridley Scott And Composers?

Recent news of composer Jóhann Jóhannsson being removed from Blade Runner 2049 soundtracking duties has surprised some, but as Charlie Brigden points out below, Producer Ridley Scott has previous when it comes to odd decisions around the musical talent.

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King Of The Wild Front-ARRRRRGH: IT Reviewed

Sean Kitching on the latest adaptation of Stephen King's much loved IT, out in cinemas today

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A Jaunt: Director Andrew Kötting Talks Gallivant 20 Years On

With his first film, Gallivant, 20 years old this month, director Andrew Kotting talks to Adam Scovell about changing technolgies, his on-screen relationship with his daughter and 'leaping into the unknown'

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Time For Acting: Oneohtrix Point Never On The Good Time Soundtrack

Daniel Lopatin - AKA Oneohtrix Point Never - talks to Mat Colegate about his award winning soundtrack to the Safdie Brother's grimy New York crime thriller Good Time.

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A Conversation We Should Be Having: Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Reviewed

Brian Coney hails Paul Sng’s documentary as a vital and all-too timely look at the country’s deep-seated housing crisis

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Two Blokes Talk About Death: Director David Lowery On A Ghost Story

Director David Lowery's latest film, A Ghost Story, is a subtle and moving examination of all the big questions. Mat Colegate sat down to ask him some slightly smaller ones.

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International Territory: An Extract From Studio: Remembering Chris Marker

Studio: Remembering Chris Marker is a new book collecting images of the legendary film maker's workspace by photographer Adam Bartos, along with reminiscences by Marker's friend Colin MacCabe. The below is an extract from Ben Lerner's introduction to the book.

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Fangs For The Memories: The Lost Boys And The Infantilization Of The Vampire

Jeremy Allen looks back at the history of the vampire film and analyses one of the genre's most influential entries, Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys. And, no, we haven't used that headline already.

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The Quietus Essay: Okja, The Jungle, Veganism And Food Security

With Bong Joon-Ho's Okja now available on Netflix, Tom Duggins asks some questions about the film's take on the complicated business of the meat trade and our attitudes to what we eat

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Lang May You Run: Der Müde Tod Reviewed

This week Eureka! released one of expressionist master Fritz Lang's lesser known works. Matthew Conn marvels at one of the legendary director's more strange and difficult films, Der müde Tod

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Avert Your Eyez: The Trouble With Biopics

With Tupac biography All Eyez On Me currently in cinemas, Jeremy Allen goes to bat against the music biopic

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Can I Be Me? Director Nick Broomfield On His Whitney Houston Documentary

The acclaimed director’s new film Whitney ‘Can I Be Me’ gets backstage access and an insider story. Lucy O’Brien talks to him about the singer’s tragic life and the ‘80s music industry.

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Baby’s On Fire: Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver Reviewed

It's the hot tip to sweep the top spots, but does Edgar Wright's crime caper have what it takes? Ben Rabinovich is on the case

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Suge I Stay Or Suge I Go? Tupac All Eyez On Me Reviewed

The Quietus Hip-Hop columnist Tara Joshi reviews the long awaited biopic of rap legend Tupac Shakur

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Walking To Nowhere: Alan Clarke’s Christine

In the final piece of our tour through the works of Alan Clarke, David Hering looks back at the director's unflinching and hypnotic junkie odyssey Christine

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Mud And Flame: Penda’s Fen re-examined

In an piece exclusive to The Quietus, and continuing our series of articles examining the works of director Alan Clarke, Matthew Harle and James Machin examine one of Clarke's most eccentric works, the psychogeographical fantasia, Penda's Fen

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Turtle-y Tropical: The Red Turtle Reviewed

Matthew Conn reviews the first ever non-Japanese Studio Ghibli production, Michael Dudok De Witt's The Red Turtle

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Easelhead: David Lynch: The Art Life Reviewed

Nadia Attia reviews a biography of David Lynch as oblique and questioning as the work of the man himself

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Fancy A Jump?: 30 Years Of Rita Sue And Bob Too!

Novelist Adelle Stripe re-appraises writer Andrea Dunbar and director Alan Clarke's masterpiece

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Before The Empire Struck Back: Tie-Ins & The Making Of Star Wars

Over in California, Ned Raggett is still as interested in Star Wars as he was forty years back. But forty years back meant grappling with the fact that cooking shows for Wookies and brutal lightsaber attacks on young princesses coexisted fully. Here is his exploration into the original Star Wars expanded universe

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For Everyone That Follows: The Ballad of Shirley Collins Reviewed

If You Go Down To The Woods: The Ritual Reviewed

The Lucifer Effect: How Hollywood’s Disease Has Spread

Outer Space: Hexus Journal Pick An Experimental Horror Bakers Dozen

‘Ave A Go If You Think You’re Dekkard Enough: Blade Runner 2049 Reviewed

Once More With Feeling: Philip K Dick And Blade Runner

Philosophy And Neon: What Makes A Good Philip K. Dick Film?

Why We Should Listen To Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Score As Musique Concrete

Score Of The Replicants: What Is It With Ridley Scott And Composers?

King Of The Wild Front-ARRRRRGH: IT Reviewed

A Jaunt: Director Andrew Kötting Talks Gallivant 20 Years On

Time For Acting: Oneohtrix Point Never On The Good Time Soundtrack

A Conversation We Should Be Having: Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Reviewed

Two Blokes Talk About Death: Director David Lowery On A Ghost Story

International Territory: An Extract From Studio: Remembering Chris Marker

Fangs For The Memories: The Lost Boys And The Infantilization Of The Vampire

The Quietus Essay: Okja, The Jungle, Veganism And Food Security

Lang May You Run: Der Müde Tod Reviewed

Avert Your Eyez: The Trouble With Biopics

Can I Be Me? Director Nick Broomfield On His Whitney Houston Documentary

Baby’s On Fire: Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver Reviewed

Suge I Stay Or Suge I Go? Tupac All Eyez On Me Reviewed

Walking To Nowhere: Alan Clarke’s Christine

Mud And Flame: Penda’s Fen re-examined

Turtle-y Tropical: The Red Turtle Reviewed

Easelhead: David Lynch: The Art Life Reviewed

Fancy A Jump?: 30 Years Of Rita Sue And Bob Too!

Before The Empire Struck Back: Tie-Ins & The Making Of Star Wars

Who’s The Daddy Now?: Alan Clarke’s SCUM In The Era Of Fake News

Better To Reign In Hell: Alien: Covenant Reviewed

Into This Wild Abyss: The Existential Terror Of Alien

Anniversary Feature: František Vláčil’s Smoke On The Potato Fields Remembered

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