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Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream: A 400-Film Collage About Our Anxious Present
As the pandemic nears a one-year mark, it can feel like we’re going around in circles. We survi...
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The People's Pyramid: Paul Duane On KLF Film 'Welcome To The Dark Ages'
A brick of Mumufication, photo courtesy of Paul Duane On August 23, 2017, Bill Drummond and Jim...
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Love In The Age Of Corona: Digital Intimacy At London Short Film Festival
We live in an era of Internet domination, where most of our relationships exist at least in som...
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How London Short Film Festival Speaks To Our Collective Rootlessness
A lot can happen in a minute. Nothing shows this better than the short film. The London Short F...
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Let's Waste Some Time: Quietus Best Movie Moments Of 2020
I do not know how many moments feature on this list. I know roughly the number of films, but I ...
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Moviedrone: The Best Film Scores Of 2020
I don't know if it's comforting or not to read that, in this absolute shitshow of a year, the s...
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Comfort Of Strangers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wandering 2010s
Instead of parceling his already lauded work into more polite, tunnel-visioned explorations of ...
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Nomadland: Mortality And Materialism In 21st Century America
“The last free place in America is a parking spot,” writes Jessica Bruder in Nomadland: Survivi...
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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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