The Year So Far
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Film Features
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"I Have A Certain Kind Of Perspective" - Jonas Mekas Interviewed
Marking his 90th birthday with retrospectives in London and Paris, avant-garde filmmaker ...
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"The Film Is The Trial" - West Of Memphis Director Amy Berg Interviewed
In 1989, a year after Errol Morris's documentary The Thin Blue Line opened in the USA, it...
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Re-Score/Re-Issue: Touch Artists Soundtrack Pathé Colour Stencil Films
The abiding image of the silent movie accompanist is that of the lone pianist improvising...
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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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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Michael Caine On New Film Is Anybody There?
You don't see old people much these days. I don't mean in real life of course; the streets are ...
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Wolverine Wanderer - X-Men Origins: Wolverine Reviewed
Alvin Stardust and friend Marvel Comics, the mighty beast that survived wars, recessions and in...
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Stroll On: The London Perambulator Reviewed
In the streets around the Whitechapel Gallery, groups on Jack the Ripper walking tours huddle t...
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Monster Mash-Up: Outlander Reviewed
115 minutes of disappearing ink. James Caviezel crash lands in a lake in 8th Century Scandinavi...
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Death March of the Penguins: Herzog's Encounters At The End Of The World
In one of his recent routines, Stewart Lee pointed out that March of the Penguins did such a ro...
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Spin Off: Armando Iannucci Speaks And In The Loop Reviewed
The recent Jacqui Smith porn-gate was further proof, if any were needed, that spin rules politi...
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Let The Right One In: New Vampire Film Reviewed
Vampires, I think we can all agree, have a long, tumultuous history when it comes to cinema: fr...
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Michael Winterbottom's Genova: Reviewed
Michael Winterbottom’s latest feature, Genova, is the newest addition to an oeuvre which, at th...
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