The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
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
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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