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As Real As Each Other: Joanna Hogg's Unrelated And The Souvenir
In 2008, when Joanna Hogg was nearly 50 years old, the British filmmaker won praise as a “break...
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The World Leaks In - Upstairs Planet: Cleaners From Venus & The Universe of Martin Newell
Every seven years, Graham Bendel turns up with a film about key outsiders from the UK music sce...
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“This Did Not Happen”: The Melancholy Of Leto's Wish Fulfilment
Leningrad, early 80s. A group of friends, musicians, and “worshippers of the West” are riding a...
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I Wish I Was Special: The Irony Of Anima
Thom Yorke has always had a paradoxical relationship with technology. His albums, either with R...
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Fisherman's Friend: Mark Jenkin’s Bait
Image courtesy: Bait film I saw Bait at the Berlin Film Festival and chose it randomly based on...
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"They’re Selling Hippie Wigs In Woolworths": 1969 On Film
It was a freezing, drizzly night when revellers thronged Times Square to ring in the new year. ...
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Deadpan: Jim Jarmusch's Political Take On The Zombie Film
Jim Jarmusch's THE DEAD DON'T DIE, a Focus Features release. Credit : Abbot Genser / Focus Feat...
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Touching Cloth: Peter Strickland On Work And Clothing
In a high street department store, a woman buys a dress in the winter sales to wear on a blind ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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