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Two Blokes Talk About Death: Director David Lowery On A Ghost Story
In A Ghost Story the latest film from David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon) de...
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International Territory: An Extract From Studio: Remembering Chris Marker
Chris Marker, whose name was not “Chris Marker,” was a play of masks and avatars, an arti...
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Fangs For The Memories: The Lost Boys And The Infantilization Of The Vampire
The vampire as we know it is unrecognisable from the folkloric apparitions of Eastern Eur...
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The Quietus Essay: Okja, The Jungle, Veganism And Food Security
Of all the beguiling rumours that await the sun-seeking Brit abroad, none is so juicy or ...
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Avert Your Eyez: The Trouble With Biopics
All Eyez On Me might be showing in multiplexes all across the country, but expectations w...
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Can I Be Me? Director Nick Broomfield On His Whitney Houston Documentary
Every so often director Nick Broomfield applies his hand-held, investigative style of fil...
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Walking To Nowhere: Alan Clarke's Christine
Even among Alan Clarke’s skeletal, stripped-down late period films, Christine (1987) is r...
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Mud And Flame: Penda's Fen re-examined
If you sat down to watch television on the evening of Thursday the 21st of March 1974, th...
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Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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