The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Cultural Archaeology: On How We Used To Live & The Big Melt
Last summer, around the time the Royal Baby arrived in our lives, a selection of compelli...
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What Is It?: Crispin Hellion Glover Interviewed
Having been in the public eye for more than 30 years, Crispin Glover is one of the more i...
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Oscar Isaac And T-Bone Burnett Talk Inside Llewyn Davis
The Quietus was recently lucky enough to have Gary Green in attendance at two roundtable interv...
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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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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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