The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Poetic Realism: Marcel Carné's Le Jour Se lève revisited
Classic French cinema is nothing new to the long running distribution company StudioCanal...
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Ambulance Chaser: Is Bringing Out The Dead Scorsese's Last Great Film?
It has been 15 years since the last true Scorsese film. This week marks the fifteenth an...
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Casino Classics: Elaine Constantine And Lisa Stansfield Talk Northern Soul
Northern Soul is a tale of two young lads (played by Eliot James Langridge and Josh White...
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The Quietus Guide To The 2014 London Film Festival
The London Film Festival returned this week, and At close to £13 a pop, it’s not exactly ...
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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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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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