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A Real Guitar Hero: Jason Becker Interviewed
The word 'hero' has been bandied about far too much this year, thanks to the Olympics and...
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Siegfried The Dragon Slayer: Die Nibelungen Revisited
Fritz Lang's epic adaptation of Die Nibelungen is five hours of ridiculous nonsense. But,...
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Wilder Combination: Keep The Lights On Director Ira Sachs Interviewed
Keep The Lights On, the new film by New York-based director Ira Sachs, tells the story of...
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30 Years On: Tenebrae Revisited
While it is now generally regarded as one of the Italian horror director's most accomplis...
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Capital Gains! London: The Modern Babylon Explored
In the year when London managed to not embarrass itself in front of the other Olympic kid...
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Don't Weave Me This Way: The Basket Case Trilogy Revisited
In a nutshell, Basket Case is a story about separation anxiety. Duane Bradley (the glorio...
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London Film Festival: Two Evenings With Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli, the cult writer-director behind Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep and The Beastmaste...
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25 Years On: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Reassessed
(NB: to avoid long exposition of a complex and sometimes contradictory narrative, this pi...
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Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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