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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Mirror's Image: Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces Review
About twenty years ago, Pedro Almodovar started taking photos of the posters for his films on b...
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Barbarism After Auschwitz: Inglourious Basterds Reviewed
Hollywood has been churning out Nazi films like they're going out of style. Over the past year ...
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Solipsism Syndrome: Duncan Jones' Debut Moon Reviewed
Several months ago, teasers and gossip surrounding Duncan Jones's debut feature Moon seemed to ...
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A Family Affair: Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum Reviewed
There was a time when it was a big deal - seeing black actors on screen. In a way, it still is ...
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Hell to Pay: Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi was watching the section in Pan's Labyrinth where young Ofelia has just escaped the t...
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Memories Of The Future: Terminator Salvation Reviewed
The best parts in the original Terminator were those few elusive glimpses of the post-judgment ...
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Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York Reviewed
At his best, Charlie Kaufman is a brilliant surrealist whose inventive premises draw attention ...
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Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed
They've been piping Star Trek out, in some form or other, since 1966. It's old, but then it's b...
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