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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
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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