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Gavin Bryars
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Pure Imagination: Studio Ghibli's Only Yesterday At 30
It’s 1966, and 10-year-old Taeko has failed a maths test. Her mother, washing dishes in the kit...
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Miss American Pie: Black Widow And Marvel's Rotten Women
Sunset in Ohio, 1995. Kids cycle home in Gap-style tees. Two sisters, chasing each other, tumbl...
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I’m A Filmmaker, The Film Makes Me: Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin
In the beginning of Deerskin, a man struggles to flush an old green jacket down the toilet. Des...
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Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40
In the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Ark of the Covenant is wheeled into a U.S. g...
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Are We Human? Steven Spielberg's A.I. At 20
It’s 1999, Steven Spielberg had just won his second Academy Award for Best Director. Saving Pri...
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Betrayed By Our Nature: Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth
In the early months and ancient days of 2020, Indian author Arundhati Roy wrote ‘The Pandemic I...
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Offline Objects: Terre Thaemlitz Interviewed
As a musician, digital streaming platforms and marketplaces typically don't allow for much cont...
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Gwyneth Paltrow On Food Stamps: Shiva Baby, Sex Work And Suburbia
There’s the sound of a woman crying out, climbing towards orgasm, almost definitely faked. “Yea...
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The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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