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Czech Great: An Appreciation Of Jan Švankmajer
"Švankmajer is 76 and I'm 72. We are still filmmakers, and we passionately need to shoot ...
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Roll Out The Barrel: The British Pub On Film Explored
Sprawling across two discs, propped up under the armpits by exhaustive, illustrated notes...
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Sex-Gore Netherworld: Nightbirds & The Body Beneath Disinterred
"When you watch an Andy Milligan movie you're in no doubt whose film you're watching," wr...
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"I'm Not That Kind Of Nerd" - Simon Pegg Interviewed
Simon Pegg is a man. A ruddy bloody bloke. When he greets me in his hotel he doesn't smel...
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Killer On The Loose: The Black Panther Reassessed
The political power of the traditional mass media may be fading in front of our eyes, but...
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Beyond The Red Carpet: A Novice Filmmaker's Cannes Experience
Given that The Angels' Share screened in competition at this year's Cannes (eventually wi...
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Hairy Tale: Island Of Lost Souls Revisited
As far as reasons for banning a film go, that it's "against nature" would be viewed as a ...
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The Devils' Double: Mother Joan Of The Angels Exhumed
In 1634 a Roman Catholic priest was burned alive at the stake accused of witchcraft. He w...
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The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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