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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
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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