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Never Come Back: Reclaiming Roots In 'Monsoon' And 'Residue'
I was born in the diaspora, bearing the guilt of parents who left. When we went back to Kolkata...
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Peep Show: Why Bette Gordon's Variety Is More Than A Feminist Vertigo
Now a boutique condo offering sky-high flats at sky-high prices, 110 3rd Avenue was once a shad...
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All Hell Broke Loose: David Fincher's Se7en And The Medieval Morality Play
The gruesome, grim and gut-wrenching ending of Se7en is unparalleled. The “What’s in the box?” ...
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Southern Journey, Revisited: An Interview With Rob Curry And Tim Plester
It may seem incongruous that one of the most insightful and vital films about culture, place an...
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Lights Off: How La Haine Destroyed The Picture Of Postcard Paris
From the cobbled streets of the Montmartre to the cafe culture of the Marais – Paris, city of g...
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Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth: O Brother, Where Art Thou? At 20
The twentieth anniversary of the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? comes at a prescient...
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A Hero's Death: Can Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Really Save Cinema?
If we’re to believe the hype, then Christopher Nolan’s Tenet isn’t just a movie – it’s the movi...
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He Makes You Think He’s Lost When He’s Won: On Chadwick Boseman
I wanted him to linger. Time slowed down, when he spoke, dusted with his South Carolina drawl. ...
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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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