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Signs Of Life: On The Transformative Power Of 'Yi Yi' 20 Years On
In Yi Yi, Edward Yang’s domestic epic which premiered at Cannes 20 years ago, one character fam...
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Night Of The Hunters: Guy Maddin On Resurrecting Federico Fellini
Ever since he was a young boy growing up in the frozen tundra of squandered dreams and wasted y...
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Road to Nowhere: How 'Dancer In The Dark' Spelled The End For Lars Von Trier
Unless you were a fastidious cinephile in the ‘90s and early 2000s, the excitement around Lars ...
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A Cinematic Lockdown: Confinement In the Films Of Alfred Hitchcock
A man is trapped indoors. He’s been there for longer than is comfortable, his natural place bei...
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Dream On: Could '9 To 5' Still Exist, 40 Years Later?
There is no other film where you see Dolly Parton, dressed as a rootin’ tootin’ cowboy, trap an...
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Weapon Of Shame: Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus On 'Moffie'
Through the pixelated image, Oliver Hermanus wears a relaxed smile. His voice is slightly delay...
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Lost in Translation: Coppola's 'The Conversation' In The Age Of Social Distancing
The first thing usually said about The Conversation – and it’s not wrong – is that it was relea...
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Scream Queens: Will 2020 Be The Year Of Feminist Horror?
It has become a cliché to say that we are living in “challenging, uncertain times.” Between the...
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Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed
The modern approach when consuming contemporary art, particularly film, is perhaps to add a hea...
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Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Reviewed
One of the most anticipated films of the year, 127 Hours has everything a faithful cinema-goer ...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The War You Don't See Journalists are a lot like people. They're either complete bastards – he...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
On Tour There can be little more warming in a character than when their fumbled struggle again...
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Wake-Up Call: Sofia Coppola's Hotel Drama Somewhere
Hotels are by no means bad settings for movies. In Barton Fink, The Shining, The Night Porter, ...
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Simon Jablonski's Latest Independent Film Reviews
Of Gods And Men It’s often difficult to become embroiled in a story surrounding religious tens...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
An Ordinary Execution Creating a sense of dread around a genocidal bastard is notoriously tric...
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Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives An often beguiling film whose casual tinkerings wi...
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