The Year So Far
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Film Features
Scorsese A Jolly Good Fella: Goodfellas 25 Years On
Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was released at the cinema in 1990. A quarter of a century l...
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Tug Of Yore: Things Learned At Helsinki's Viva Erotica Festival
“Will people be masturbating in the cinema?” This was one of the most frequently asked qu...
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Things Learned At The 2015 Madeira Film Festival
Now in it's fourth year, the Madeira Film Festival marks itself out from its internationa...
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Kip Follows: Director Carol Morley On The Falling
Carol Morley is the director of 12 films. Her first full length feature The Alcohol Years...
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Snowden-der: Coppola's The Conversation Reassessed
Citizenfour, the Oscar-winning 2015 documentary directed by Laura Poitras, sees the whist...
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Kinoteka It Away: The 13th Annual Polish Film Festival Previewed
The film festival is a stage on which narratives are played out, and through the programm...
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Take No Prisoners: Robert Altman Remembered
As someone who has seen a decent chunk of Robert Altman’s 39 films (including his HBO ser...
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Has He Lost His Mind?: The Saragossa Manuscript
In the classic counter-culture novel Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea sp...
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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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