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Sisters With Transistors: Discovering Electronic Music’s Female Innovators
Sisters with Transistors is the new documentary from filmmaker Lisa Rovener that sheds light on...
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A Deafening Glory: On Sound Of Metal And The Hell Of Noise
‘Life is noise,’ reads the strapline to Darius Marder’s directorial debut Sound of Metal, an un...
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The Needle And The Damage Done: Christiane F. At 40
Few places have been mythologised in the contemporary cultural imagination more than late 1970s...
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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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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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