A Quietus Interview:
James Holden
Film Features
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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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Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered
Filmmakers are often the producers of our dreams, putting us into collective hypnosis. An...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Avatar 3D Review - "More Polished Than Hugh Hefner's Cock"
It’s been a long time since James Cameron directed a feature film - 12 years, in fact, since he...
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Where The Wild Things Are: On The Couch With Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are, the new adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers of Maurice Sendak'...
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Lo-Fi Fright: Paranormal Activity Reviewed
What makes a good horror film? Is it the the blood or the guts? The breasts or the beasts? The ...
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We Live In Public - A Warhol For Our Times?
Does Josh Harris - self-described as "one of the first great artists of the twenty-first centur...
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Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed
Do you remember the music posters you tacked to your teenage bedroom wall? Did the posters’ ico...
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All Tomorrow's Parties The Film Reviewed: The Triumph Of The Fans
From 2000 to 2004, I went to every single All Tomorrow's Parties festival held in this country....
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It's Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss
“God’s forgotten me, I kill people and nothing happens!” screams Eunice (Amanda Plummer), a mas...
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Bro' Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed
“It’s a look into what we would do with an insight into our own mortality”, offers director Jud...
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