The Year So Far
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A Town Called Walker: Point Blank Reappraised
He is, of course, called Walker. No first name. Just Walker. And in the key early scene, ...
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Movement In Light: The Cinema Of Man Ray
Man Ray was a multimedia artist best known for his portrait photography, yet despite his ...
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In Search Of Divine: A Retrospective
The late 1960s in America was a time of shifting attitudes towards sex, homosexuality, dr...
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The Dark Side Of Normal: Yorgos Lanthimos Interviewed
In Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos pushed black comedy towards horror in depict...
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Django Fever: A Hidden History Of Django Unchained
Since the release of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, there has been a storm of conf...
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Picturing the Land Beyond: The Films of Penny Woolcock
It’s a sign of Penny Woolcock’s astonishing work rate that she premiered not one, but two...
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Forbidden Games And Beyond: René Clément On DVD
This week sees the arrival of four films onto DVD from the French filmmaker René Clément....
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Deneuve-Shredding: Repulsion Revisited
"The producers were used to producing porn." Catherine Deneuve For a film that so brilli...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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