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Film Features
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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Film Reviews
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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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