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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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The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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