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First Cut Is The Deepest: Thelma Schoonmaker Talks Scorsese And Silence
Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker first met director Martin Scorsese when he was still a stu...
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A Crisis Of Faith: Robert Bright On Martin Scorsese's Silence
Early in Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel, Silence, the Jesuit missionary Sebastian Rodrigues, q...
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Visceral Matters: Director Richard Kelly On Donnie Darko
Sometimes a film comes along that becomes part of you, and so it was when I hit 'play' on...
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Mondo Generator: Sheldon Renan On The Killing Of America
The Killing of America is a documentary: every image is real. It looks at violence in the...
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"If You're Taking This Seriously You're In The Wrong Theatre": Paul Schrader Interviewed
Paul Schrader’s new film is Dog Eat Dog, and it represents a total change of pace for the...
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I Say We Nuke The Entire Site From Orbit: Aliens At The Royal Albert Hall
All Aliens stills courtesy of Avex Classics International In the 1962 novel A Clockwork ...
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Northern Darkness: Grimmfest 2016 Reviewed
It is perhaps convenient to ignore GrimmFest. A smaller, more northern affair spread acro...
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A History Of Silence: Cinema, Noise And The Quest For Peace
In Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande A Parte, there’s a famous scene in which the film’s ...
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Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?
Plus: Scroll down for Shot From Both Sides: Cinema From The Enemy's Point of View The old adag...
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Setting The Standard: Role Models Reviewed
Making a comedic film requires a very difficult balancing act. As per the conventions of mainst...
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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, 'Mumblecore' Lynchpin
Joe Swanberg made quite an impression at last year's London Film Festival with his latest work ...
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Reviewed
I have put off writing this article for too many days now. The reason for this is not laziness,...
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Cinematic Santas - The Least Convincing And Naughtiest Santas on Film
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, no...
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New Patti Smith Documentary: Dream of Life - Reviewed
A few people, a charmed few, are lucky enough to give off light when a camera is on them. Patti...
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Generation Terrorists: The Baader-Meinhof Group’s Legacy
Growing up on a British Forces base in West Germany at the height of the cold war in the late 7...
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Choke and Cinema's Most Adventurous Book Adaptations
Chuck Palahniuk once said in an interview that his goal as a writer was not to make books which...
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