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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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Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?
Plus: Scroll down for Shot From Both Sides: Cinema From The Enemy's Point of View The old adag...
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Setting The Standard: Role Models Reviewed
Making a comedic film requires a very difficult balancing act. As per the conventions of mainst...
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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, 'Mumblecore' Lynchpin
Joe Swanberg made quite an impression at last year's London Film Festival with his latest work ...
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Reviewed
I have put off writing this article for too many days now. The reason for this is not laziness,...
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Cinematic Santas - The Least Convincing And Naughtiest Santas on Film
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, no...
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New Patti Smith Documentary: Dream of Life - Reviewed
A few people, a charmed few, are lucky enough to give off light when a camera is on them. Patti...
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Generation Terrorists: The Baader-Meinhof Group’s Legacy
Growing up on a British Forces base in West Germany at the height of the cold war in the late 7...
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Choke and Cinema's Most Adventurous Book Adaptations
Chuck Palahniuk once said in an interview that his goal as a writer was not to make books which...
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