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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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Happy Together: Wong Kar-Wai And The History Of Hong Kong Migrant Cinema
Wong Kar-wai’s films are always crossing borders. Though his films have become staples of moder...
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What Does The Future Hold? An Interview With Adam Curtis
'Adam Curtis CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (BBC iPlayer...
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Hollywood Killed The Reality Star: Lana Turner At 100
Lana Turner’s first appearance on screen didn’t last very long. As the murder victim in Mervyn ...
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No Image: A King Rocker Conversation with Stewart Lee, Michael Cumming And Robert Lloyd
It looks like a music documentary. There’s a famous person [Stewart Lee] walking out of a train...
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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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