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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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Emerald Cities: How Green Became Cinema’s Loneliest Colour
A solitary man stands alone in a parking lot, its smooth concrete angles washed in a sickly gre...
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Where Have All The Good Men Gone? The ‘Auteurs’ 2018 Buried
On 12 April 2018, the Festival de Cannes announced the first wave of films in the 71st edition....
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Cinematic Snares: What We Lose When We Dismiss Films As 'Oscar Bait'
credit: Dorith Mous / ©A.M.P.A.S. The word ‘bait’ has two definitions – one as a noun, one as a...
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A Year On Film: Quietus Critics Pick Their Top Films Of 2018
I’m not doing a ranked top ten or rundown or round up of 2018 this year. I can’t quite bring my...
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None More Bleak: Hu Bo’s An Elephant Sitting Still
On October 8th 2017, the director and novelist Hu Bo met a friend for a drink in the Wangjing s...
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Worshipping Convention: The Trouble With A Star Is Born
“Why’d you come around here with an ass like that?” Bradley Cooper, or rather country-rock star...
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Max King Of Scores: Richter Discusses New Soundtrack
Max Richter is one of the most important voices of modern music, both in his work in the classi...
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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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