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Sonic Mouth: Peter Strickland Interviewed
Ever since his breakout feature Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland has been a director at...
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High Alert: Romain Gavras On Greek Tragedy Athena
Romain Gavras has built an epic. The acclaimed French director of music videos for the likes of...
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Miss Understood: Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. At 30
In the closing credits for Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Leslie Harris refers to her work as...
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New Openings: Anime, Fandom And Japanese Music At Crunchyroll
Midway through a set of ferocious riffs, screaming and headbanging, the band SiM’s vocalist, kn...
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Europe Endless: The America Of Paris, Texas
It begins with an endlessly vast, endlessly empty desert plain. It could almost be an alien lan...
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Ways Of Seeing: Koyaanisqatsi At 40
For some, it was the first example of environmentalist cinema. Others would no doubt think it “...
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Pure Motion: Girls Can't Surf And Other Wave Stories
In a basement, or garage, one of those hatches where penniless surfers shelter, a teenage runaw...
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Jah Wobble: In Conversation On Get Carter At 50
As British audiences went to see Get Carter in March 1971, the crime film’s atmosphere of perva...
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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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