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Star Striped Tragedy: Captain Phillips Reassesed
There’s a startling moment at the end of John Singleton’s 1995 campus biopic Higher Learn...
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Cinematographic Alchemy: Cocteau's La Belle Et La Bete Reassessed
Jean Cocteau opens his film adaptation of the classic fairytale Beauty And The Beast like...
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Cosmic Possibility & Utter Weirdness: Revisiting Georges Franju
Informed by the past yet still strikingly modern, the films of Georges Franju seem to exi...
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Blood Sucking Freaks: Herzog's Nosferatu Revisited
The BFI’s immense season Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film is open now, and the first strand...
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A Brave New World Of Sound: Joakim Sundström Interviewed
“A brave new world of sound awaits you.” These are the words that greet sound engineer Gi...
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Talking A Load Of Rap: Jeanie Finlay Talks The Great Hip Hop Hoax
There's an oft-repeated, possibly apocryphal, tale concerning Charlie Chaplin and his dec...
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Films For Music: Frank Zappa's Cinematic Legacy
"One of the worst films in the entire history of cinema, a criticism I can confidently as...
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Things Learned At: Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2013
I don't think I'd ever been considered important enough to count as 'Industry' before. An...
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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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