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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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4 Years Ahead Of His Time: Stewart Lee & Michael Cumming On The Nightingales
My interview slot has been pushed back by an hour. I’m at the Sea Change festival, where I’m to...
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Film Reviews
Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed
The modern approach when consuming contemporary art, particularly film, is perhaps to add a hea...
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Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Reviewed
One of the most anticipated films of the year, 127 Hours has everything a faithful cinema-goer ...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The War You Don't See Journalists are a lot like people. They're either complete bastards – he...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
On Tour There can be little more warming in a character than when their fumbled struggle again...
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Wake-Up Call: Sofia Coppola's Hotel Drama Somewhere
Hotels are by no means bad settings for movies. In Barton Fink, The Shining, The Night Porter, ...
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Simon Jablonski's Latest Independent Film Reviews
Of Gods And Men It’s often difficult to become embroiled in a story surrounding religious tens...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
An Ordinary Execution Creating a sense of dread around a genocidal bastard is notoriously tric...
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Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives An often beguiling film whose casual tinkerings wi...
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