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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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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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