The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
Exorcising The Past: A Retrospective Chat With William Friedkin
When I spoke to William Friedkin back in May 1998, he was promoting the UK re-release of ...
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Saving Flags: British Sea Power Soundtrack The BFI Archive
How nations choose to remember themselves on film is always problematic, in the documenta...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Revisited
Comprising 198 episodes broadcast over 11 years, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K t...
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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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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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