A Quietus Interview:
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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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Mirror's Image: Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces Review
About twenty years ago, Pedro Almodovar started taking photos of the posters for his films on b...
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Barbarism After Auschwitz: Inglourious Basterds Reviewed
Hollywood has been churning out Nazi films like they're going out of style. Over the past year ...
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Solipsism Syndrome: Duncan Jones' Debut Moon Reviewed
Several months ago, teasers and gossip surrounding Duncan Jones's debut feature Moon seemed to ...
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A Family Affair: Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum Reviewed
There was a time when it was a big deal - seeing black actors on screen. In a way, it still is ...
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Hell to Pay: Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi was watching the section in Pan's Labyrinth where young Ofelia has just escaped the t...
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Memories Of The Future: Terminator Salvation Reviewed
The best parts in the original Terminator were those few elusive glimpses of the post-judgment ...
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Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York Reviewed
At his best, Charlie Kaufman is a brilliant surrealist whose inventive premises draw attention ...
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Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed
They've been piping Star Trek out, in some form or other, since 1966. It's old, but then it's b...
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