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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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Shadow Of A Doubt: A Look Back At The Hitchcock/Truffaut Interviews
In 1962 the accomplished French New Wave director and film critic Francois Truffaut wrote...
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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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