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Where The Sublime And Ridiculous Meet: Boris Barnet On DVD
Think of Russian cinema, and it's unlikely that the name 'Boris Barnet' will be among the...
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25 Years On: Prince Of Darkness Revisited
Released in 1987, Prince of Darkness is the second part of what director John Carpenter h...
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From Pickpocket To The Qing Dynasty: A Jia Zhangke Primer
According to a recent profile in The Guardian, China's newly named leader Xi Jinping is s...
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Michael's Videos: Haneke And The Banality Of Evil
There is a moment in Michael Haneke's latest film, Amour, in which the wife, whose name –...
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20 Years On: Malcolm X Reassessed
On its release in November 1992, the long-awaited biopic of Malcolm X topped out at numbe...
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Goats Whitehead Soup: Charlie Is My Darling Revisited
Whether through savvy or serendipity the Rolling Stones have always been in the habit of ...
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"We Are Quite Savage Islanders" - Ben Wheatley Interviewed
The political theorist Hannah Arendt famously coined an immortal phrase to describe captu...
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BFI Uncut Season: Maîtresse Revisited
Barbet Schroeder's drama Maîtresse has been released on Blu-ray and DVD to coincide with ...
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The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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