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Don't Look Now: Oscar Hopeful Quo Vadis Aida? Through A Bosnian Lens
There are moments in Jasmila Žbanić ’s Quo Vadis, Aida? – a nominee for Best International Feat...
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Beware Of Rainer Werner: The Bitter Tears Of Fassbinder's Fans
The facts of his life are wilder than any screenplay. Rainer Werner Fassbinder began his care...
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The Realm Of The Senses: Blow Out And Cutter’s Way At 40
Brian De Palma’s Blow Out and Ivan Passer’s Cutter’s Way aren’t just predicated on the act of m...
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Inside The Heterotopia: Notes On Voguing With Beethoven
Ball culture is ‘a celebration of [a] life that the rest of the world does not deem worthy of c...
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More Than An Emblem: The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
Norman Granz writes on the liner of Songs For Distingué Lovers (1957) that Billie Holiday “hap...
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Humans After All: Daft Punk Said Goodbye With The Film Baring Their Soul
Earlier this week, French house pioneers Daft Punk bid adieu to the world after 28 years atop t...
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Running Away: Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy In Gay Cinema
A young gay man stands alone on a train platform, caught in the midst of a very on-the-nose dow...
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Creating A New World: Summer Of Soul And The Black Consciousness Revolution
A sweeping crowd packs into Mount Morris Park like sardines, heightened anticipation all but se...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed
The modern approach when consuming contemporary art, particularly film, is perhaps to add a hea...
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Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Reviewed
One of the most anticipated films of the year, 127 Hours has everything a faithful cinema-goer ...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The War You Don't See Journalists are a lot like people. They're either complete bastards – he...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
On Tour There can be little more warming in a character than when their fumbled struggle again...
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Wake-Up Call: Sofia Coppola's Hotel Drama Somewhere
Hotels are by no means bad settings for movies. In Barton Fink, The Shining, The Night Porter, ...
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Simon Jablonski's Latest Independent Film Reviews
Of Gods And Men It’s often difficult to become embroiled in a story surrounding religious tens...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
An Ordinary Execution Creating a sense of dread around a genocidal bastard is notoriously tric...
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Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives An often beguiling film whose casual tinkerings wi...
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