The Year So Far
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Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage
It was a cool April morning in San Francisco. Just after 6am I stood in Claude Lane, betw...
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30 Years On: Q - The Winged Serpent Revisited
Frequently described as a maverick and an auteur, Larry Cohen is the type of filmmaker wh...
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FrightFest The 13th: The Cigarette Burns Report
To say it's a pilgrimage for some isn't to overstate FrightFest's importance. For 13 year...
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A Fair Coppola? Rumble Fish Reassessed
The presence of absence is everywhere in Rumble Fish, which was the second SE Hinton nove...
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Foley Cow! Berberian Sound Studio Director Peter Strickland Interviewed
A bloodcurdling scream lands on the wet sop of a demolished watermelon. The sudden clunk ...
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Bowiefest Preview: Absolute Beginners Revisited
"Now, my kids will watch anything, but they couldn't watch this. Nor could their friends....
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"We Were Engulfed By Acid Vapour" - Samsara's Mark Magidson Interviewed
A slaughterhouse. Prayers at Mecca. A sand mandala painstakingly created and then destroy...
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Truths And Lies: F For Fake Revisited
The re-release of Orson Welles' F for Fake this summer is a cause for celebration. Consid...
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Film Reviews
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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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