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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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Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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