The Year So Far
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False Negative: John Waters Interviewed
I first worked with John Waters when I brought him to San Francisco’s Castro Theater in 2001 to...
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We Lost Dancing: How Fred again.. And Ruben Östlund Found Each Other
There is little more infuriating in the world of art consumption when someone has a good idea b...
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Spectacular Spectacular: On Baz Luhrmann's Elvis
Baz Luhrmann was never going to make a biopic. His film about Elvis Presley, the highest-sellin...
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This Much I Know To Be True: Nick Cave And Warren Ellis' New Film On Grief
Nick Cave doesn’t seem like the kind of man to take government advice to heart, but that’s what...
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Hopes For Paradise: Terrence Davies and The Long Day Closes
Years ago, my Dad was trying to explain to me how it felt to see Lawrence of Arabia in the cine...
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Let Go: Franz Rogowski On Great Freedom
When I sit down with Franz Rogowski at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2021, it’s the secon...
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Let's Not Rush: A Love Letter To Trains On Screen
For almost as long as it has existed, cinema has been just as obsessed with trains as sweet Tik...
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Fuck Fame: Charli XCX, A-ha And Destructive Fandom
Somewhere in the metaverse, a popstar echoes the loneliness of her LGBTQ+ fans during Covid loc...
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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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