A Quietus Interview:
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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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Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
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Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
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Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
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Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
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Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
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Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
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Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
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