The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
Leaving La La Land: A Radical History Of The Musical Film
Damon Chazelle’s La La Land, which comes out on DVD this month, is a bad film; a terrible...
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Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch's Mulholland Drive Remembered
Mulholland Drive runs for fifty miles along a ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1,400f...
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A Quiet Passion: The Problem Of Poetry On Film
When a poet’s tale is told in the medium of film, you can always expect an extra dose of ...
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Anniversary Feature: Wings of Honneamise Remembered
"Suppose that life was a story. If you were to think about it like that... Have you ever ...
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Into The Fire: Rollo Smallcombe On Scoring Clouzot's Inferno
Making a film is such a herculean effort that it's frankly a wonder that any get made at ...
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Anniversary Feature: Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun Remembered
Firstly I should say I'm disappointed in myself for not immediately registering this as a...
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Brexit-Is-Iccumen-In: The Wicker Man And Britain Today
Consider the following: an inward looking island community being duped into social, moral...
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A Kind Of Blue: Reflections On The Moonlight Soundtrack
History was made at the Oscars this week, as a story depicting a gay black man’s struggle...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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