The Year So Far
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Hounslow's Finest: Bend It Like Beckham At 20
There was something unique about growing up in Hounslow in the late ‘90s. A stone’s throw from ...
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Comeback Kid: Happy Anniversary, Robert Altman
The River Seine has more poetry than the Los Angeles River. Flanked by students clutching cigar...
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The Most Powerful Man In America: The Godfather At 50
The worlds of the Mafia and American politics are inseparable. The 20th century was when Americ...
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Icarus Also Flew: Fitzcarraldo And Herzog's Blockbuster Ambition
Film and spectacle have always worked hand in hand, but over time the idea of a truly spectacul...
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Dreamweaver: How Wayne’s World’s Cassandra Broke The Comedy Mould
Thirty years ago, Penelope Spheeris directed a comedy that would break the genre’s mould thanks...
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Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100
Almost exactly 100 years ago, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu helped establish the vampire as one of th...
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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden's The Other Side Of The Underneath
In 1972, the feminist actress, dramaturge, writer, director and singer Jane Arden spent a few m...
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Against The Tides: 60 Years Of Kobayashi's Brutal Harakiri
The image of a character committing seppuku or harakiri – a form of ritual suicide by self-dise...
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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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