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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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Toy Story 2 At 20: Mortality And Acceptance On The Edge Of 30
As of time of writing, there are now four, official, full-length Toy Story films. Toy Story, th...
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Moviedrone: This Month's Finest Film Soundtracks, November 2019
As I'm writing this, it's been brought to my attention that 3 November is the birthdate of one ...
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Herzog For The Curb Era: A Serious Man Turns 10
On the Blu-Ray version of the Coens’ semi-autobiographical comedy-drama A Serious Man is a feat...
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Sparking Joy: Family And Fireworks In Hirokazu Kore-eda's Cinema
There is something cinematic about the firework: concentrated momentum, bright and loud, but mo...
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Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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