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Call Of The Wild: Inside 'Wolfwalkers', The Game-Changing Irish Animation
When Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart were carrying out research for their animated environmental op...
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Angel Of Death: Reframing Montgomery Clift At 100
“After Clift came Brando, and after Brando, James Dean. Clift was the purest, the least mannere...
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Always In Light: Notes On Spike Lee And David Byrne's American Utopia
Irrespective of the year and its circumstances, unprecedented or otherwise, there is magic in t...
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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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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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