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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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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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