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Film Features
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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Strangeness Just Around The Corner: Quietus Writers On Studio Ghibli
Waking up on Monday to garbled – and, it turns out, less than accurate – reports that Jap...
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The Hidden Eye: Charlie Siskel On Finding Vivian Maier
Imagine winning over 100,000 photographs by an unknown female photographer in an auction....
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A Bigger Bloat: The Hollywood Blockbuster Taken To Task
One of the most significant milestones in recent cinema history occurred in a film you’re...
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Hair Comes Tomorrow: The Planet Of The Apes Films Reassesed
The Planet Of The Apes series has had a curious longevity. The original 1968 classic was ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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