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Down To The Woods: 50 Years Of Khitruk's Soviet Winnie The Pooh
Picture Winnie-the-Pooh: you’re probably thinking of the portly, listless, honey-yellow bear fr...
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Picture This: Are Any Books Truly Unfilmable?
Cinema did not begin by adapting literature. Adaptations always existed, but film, traditionall...
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The Star-Crossed Busker: The Third Man And Anton Karas
Carol Reed’s classic post-war mystery, The Third Man, hardly lacks for admirers. If in 1949 it ...
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Mercury Rising: The Hottest August Under The Sign Of Warming
Apparently it was so warm and wet this October that pumpkins in New York were rotting a week be...
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By The Green Light: Ethnofuturism And Djinns In Mati Diop's Atlantics
As a child I was told—and warned—of djinns. Never having encountered one, I relished the storie...
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Ben-Hur At 60 And The Immortality Of Miklós Rózsa
When it comes to the grand-scale epics of the ’50s and ’60s, a number of different films spring...
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Accountability Or Apologia? America's Weight In The Report
Who guards the guards? Questions of oversight and accountability are at the centre of Scott Z. ...
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Who Paints These Houses? On Harvey Keitel And Martin Scorsese
The Irishman feels like a send-off. Directed by 76-year-old Martin Scorsese and starring Robert...
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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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