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Rigour And Play: Laurie Anderson's Favourite Films
The boundaries between film, art, music and performance have all been resolutely tested b...
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Cracked Actor – Hooked To The Silver Screen With Bowie
It’s easy to mock rock stars with acting aspirations. It’s a phenomenon with a bleak history, a...
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The Decline Of My Empire: Aidan Moffat On The Force Awakens
The rot set in on my eighth birthday, April 10th 1981. This was my D-Day, the first small...
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Forbidden Rooms: Director Guy Maddin Interviewed
Canadian director Guy Maddin manages to be both cult and current. A jubilant dabbler in a...
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Harder, Better, Faster, Fonda: Philippa Snow On Klute
Like pornography, cool is something you know when you see it. Like the sex that people ha...
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Life And Truth: Director Terence Davies Interviewed
British auteur Terence Davies has fashioned an illustrious career out of experience and m...
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Head Music: Stop Making Sense Reassessed
The release of Jonathan Demme’s legendary concert film Stop Making Sense on Blu-ray provi...
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Footage At The Borderlands: Horror Writer Adam Nevill's Cinematic Baker's Dozen
Having previously turned his talents to subjects such as the traditional ghost story, the...
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Film Reviews
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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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