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Film Features
A Renaissance For Live Cinema: Performance At Splice & Sheffield Doc/Fest
Splice Festival 2018 This year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest boasted a proudly eclectic programme: All-a...
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Nothing Fabulous Lasts: Fleshback, Studio 54 & Alt-Sex Clubbing On Film
I was explaining to a brunette in black lace why we “would not be doing kissing” – because toni...
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Behind Jean-Luc Godard’s Shades: Agnès Varda’s Ways Of Seeing
”L’art du cinema consiste à faire faire de jolies choses à de jolies femmes” – the art of cinem...
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Moviedrone: July's Film Soundtrack Round Up
MISSING THE POINT It’s not every day that a big Hollywood composer tells you that you're missi...
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Energy Flash: Jake Meginsky On Milford Graves
Milford Graves Full Mantis, a new documentary about the jazz musician and polymath, is an exqui...
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You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock's Vertigo
In a 1960 interview for the BBC series, Picture Parade, Alfred Hitchcock famously stated that “...
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Faith In The End Times: Paul Schrader’s First Reformed
Can god forgive us for what we’ve done to this world? It’s a question that increasingly comes t...
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No Rules This Time: Sicario 2 Panders To The Far Right
Sicario: Day of the Soldado is a true marvel of evil entertainment and ill timing. It is an exp...
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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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