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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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Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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