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Things Learned At The 2014 Branchage Film Festival
The Point Of Film Festivals (Or, At Least, This One) What is the point of a film festiva...
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Hanks For The Memories: The 'Burbs Revisited
Branched out from our universe, there is an alternate, bizarre-world offshoot of 1970s Ho...
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American Psychos: The Hollywood Male At Breaking Point
The fragile male psyche has been explored at great length in modern American cinema. In t...
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Crashes, Bangs and Quarries: An Interview With The The Radiophonic Workshop
"The BBC Radiophonic Workshop provides a series of radiophonic sound and music effects fo...
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Samurai Of The Beholder: Kurosawa's Legacy Reassessed
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have played a decisive role in...
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Blank Generation: Jim Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation
Permanent Vacation, the 1980 feature-length debut from American auteur Jim Jarmusch, is p...
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The Broken Nest: Satyajit Ray's Charulata reassessed
Of all Satyajit Ray’s films, his 1964 domestic drama Charulata (The Lonely Wife) was famo...
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"Too Much The Darkness" The Werner Herzog Soundtracks Of Popol Vuh
“As a German filmmaker after the war, we grew up as - not only me, but all my peers - we ...
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Film Reviews
Midnight Meat Train: How Clive Barker's Latest Was Almost Derailed
The mighty Clive Barker returns to the big screen with an adaptation of one of his earliest sho...
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Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading: Reviewed
Last Oscar season, we saw supremely talented filmmakers get back to basics in order to snatch s...
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Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena
Its odd to think that the sci-fi film is an English-language phenomenon. There are several nota...
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The British Invasion: How to Break Hollywood as a British Actor
There is a delicious irony in Simon Pegg playing a British maverick selling out to Americans in...
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Revenge Of The ASBO: Eden Lake Reviewed
According to The Daily Mail the kids are running riot, stabbing wildly in the dark and all too ...
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Book-Film Adaptations: Win Tickets To Hear Toby Young Speak
While Hollywood scrounges through its couch cushions searching for that elusive shiny copper of...
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Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Reviewed
This documentary feature film sees Vice magazine take another step towards throwing off the per...
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Cockney Cold War: Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla and Russian Movie Villains
At first glance, Guy Ritchie’s latest film RocknRolla seems to be concocted from the same recip...
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