The Year So Far
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Film Features
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The Voices From The Regions: Ken Loach interviewed
Fresh from his Outstanding British Film BAFTA win for I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach tells me...
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The Second Sex: Philippa Snow On Paul Verhoeven's Elle
“A woman who's read The Second Sex,” says sixty-year-old divorcee Michele LeBlanc to her ...
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A Dirty Shame: John Waters Interviewed
How do you introduce John Waters? He's one of the most important independent filmmakers o...
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"I Get Paid And We're All Going To Die": John Michael McDonagh Talks War On Everyone
John Michael McDonagh is a London-Irish writer and director, and the brother of In Bruges...
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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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Film Reviews
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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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