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The Killing Joke: War Comedy In 'Da 5 Bloods' And 'Apocalypse Now'
In MAS*H, Robert Altman’s 1970 goofy Vietnam war satire, Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan pro...
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They Do Things Differently There: The Rio Cinema And A History Of Activism In East London
Around 11 A.M. on the morning of Thursday 22 November 1990, one of the dinner ladies at a certa...
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Nowhere Man: 'Slacker' At 30 And The Evolution Of The Conspiracy Theorist
There is something about Slacker’s appeal which is hard to pin down. The IMDb page describes Ri...
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A New Hope: How 'X-Men' Sparked The Superhero Genre
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, comprising 23 films and eight TV series and counting, has raked ...
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Be Kind, Rewind: Lessons From The Cross Pollination Of The 1960s And 1970s
As the world falls apart around us, all we can do is sit indoors and wait for the apocalypse to...
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Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman's 'Toute Une Nuit'
The dialogue of Chantal Akerman’s 1982 film Toute Une Nuit is delivered largely in isolated phr...
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A New History: Mark Cousins On His 14-Hour Odyssey 'Women Make Film'
Writer-director Mark Cousins describes himself as an activist. His latest 14-hour documentary, ...
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Signs Of Life: On The Transformative Power Of 'Yi Yi' 20 Years On
In Yi Yi, Edward Yang’s domestic epic which premiered at Cannes 20 years ago, one character fam...
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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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