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Film Features
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Film Features
Time Destroys All Things: Irreversible Reassessed
Irreversible is a film that represents a certain quandary – it is a film that is so stagg...
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Salt Of The Earth: The 2015 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
For many people, when the music stops it’s time to go home, maybe grab a late-night bite ...
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Nature-Built Prisons: Director Jeppe Rønde On Bridgend
One of the stand-out films of this year’s Gothenburg Film Festival was Jeppe Rønde’s new ...
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Heart Trouble: Cardiac Arrest Remembered
Jed Mercurio is a big player in TV writing now – working on a new adaptation of Lady Chat...
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From Dad To Worse: The Wolfe Brothers On Catch Me Daddy
With Catch Me Daddy, acclaimed music video director Daniel Wolfe and his brother Matthew ...
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Between A Dream And A Nightmare: David Mitchell On It Follows
Out in UK cinemas today, director David Robert Mitchell's It Follows is already being hai...
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Mann-erisms: The Films Of Michael Mann Reassessed
Director Michael Mann tends to revisit his films long after their release, restoring foot...
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How Swede It Is: Gothenburg Film Festival
Each January, audiences from across Scandinavia and beyond flock to Sweden’s second city ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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