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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
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Film Reviews
Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?
Plus: Scroll down for Shot From Both Sides: Cinema From The Enemy's Point of View The old adag...
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Setting The Standard: Role Models Reviewed
Making a comedic film requires a very difficult balancing act. As per the conventions of mainst...
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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, 'Mumblecore' Lynchpin
Joe Swanberg made quite an impression at last year's London Film Festival with his latest work ...
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Reviewed
I have put off writing this article for too many days now. The reason for this is not laziness,...
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Cinematic Santas - The Least Convincing And Naughtiest Santas on Film
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, no...
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New Patti Smith Documentary: Dream of Life - Reviewed
A few people, a charmed few, are lucky enough to give off light when a camera is on them. Patti...
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Generation Terrorists: The Baader-Meinhof Group’s Legacy
Growing up on a British Forces base in West Germany at the height of the cold war in the late 7...
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Choke and Cinema's Most Adventurous Book Adaptations
Chuck Palahniuk once said in an interview that his goal as a writer was not to make books which...
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