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Bugs, Armour And Talking Thumbs: Things Learned At The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival
Is VR the new kid on the block? 'Storyscapes projects' now in its fourth year at New Yo...
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Injustice For All: Ripley's Game Remembered
Welcome to Injustice For All, a semi-regular feature here on The Quietus in which we ask ...
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Revenge Of The Auteur: Nymphomaniac's Musical Miscellany
The choice of music used in Lars von Trier’s 2013 film Nymphomaniac may seem scattershot ...
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Injustice For All: The Quietus Writers Pick Their Favourite Underrated Films
Life isn't fair, so it stands to reason that neither is the world of film. For every crit...
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Beyond The Parking Lot: The Art Of The Metal Documentary
Thirty years ago next month, a 16-minute, no-budget documentary titled Heavy Metal Parkin...
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Feel The Payne: The (Mostly) Tragic History Of Video Game Adaptations
After years of abject failure, video game adaptations are making a return, with films lik...
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All Reality Is Virtual: Waking Life Reassessed
"Y'know, they say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn’t you say the sa...
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Rising To The Occasion: Ben Wheatley's Cinematic Baker's Dozen
Ever since Ben Wheatley made Down Terrace in 2008, he has been changing perceptions of wh...
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Film Reviews
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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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