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Preview: Thirty Years of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation
"The group has just finished a long project that in some ways is the beginning of a new path, y...
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Nothing Is Trite: PJ Harvey In A Dog Called Money
One the themes emerging from the majority of films I’ve seen here at the 2019 Berlinale is that...
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Shock Treatment: Piercing Director Nicolas Pesce's Favourite Gialli
Piercing is the strange, slow-build, high-tension second feature by New York-born director Nico...
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The King Of Philadelphia: Teddy Pendergrass On Film
Credit: Don Hunstein Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me tells the story of the King of Phi...
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Robbing Malice Of Its Venom: Suri Krishnamma Remembers Albert Finney
I first met Albert Finney in 1993, just before we cast him in A Man of No Importance, in a tiny...
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Into The Void: Art And Emptiness In Velvet Buzzsaw
This is how we watch films these days. I had decided not to watch Velvet Buzzsaw, the latest mu...
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Infinite Cinema: At The International Film Festival Rotterdam
On the drive in from the airport, we asked our driver, what’s a fun thing to do in Rotterdam? T...
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Liv Ullmann & Ingmar Bergman: Redefining The Muse
‘Behind every good man is a great woman’ is a phrase that hasn't aged well. Overlooked and unde...
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Film Reviews
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Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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