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Film Features
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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Film Reviews
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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