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High Tech, Old English: Beowulf And The Green Knight
Ah, the seventh century. A simpler time. A time when men were free to dismember one another wit...
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You Silly Goose: The Courier And Our Tired, Boring British Period Films
There is a famous stretch of British history which runs from May 1940 and the ascension of Wins...
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Femininity And Fandom: Spirited Away At 20
It takes 12 minutes for Chihiro’s parents to turn into pigs. By the half hour mark, she’s evade...
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Inspiration And Implementation: Olivier Assayas On His Key Films
For 35 years now, the sometimes-controversial French film director Olivier Assayas has been thr...
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20 Years On: The People Who Captured 9/11 Up Close
Mark LaGanga is a cameraman for CBS’s 60 Minutes, but in 2001 worked for the network’s North Ea...
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Stationary Peaceful Protest: Xhosa Cole Interviewed
Xhosa Cole appears at Flatpack Festival on 25 September In his 1986 documentary film Handswort...
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Inside Zohra, Afghanistan's First All-Female Orchestra
“Music is a refuge” believes Dan Blackwell, musician and director of Sisters, a documentary abo...
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Beautiful Violence: Prano Bailey-Bond On 1980s Horror Censor
We find Enid, the protagonist of Censor, Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut feature film, caged in an ai...
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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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