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No Rush: AV Festival's Slow Cinema Weekend Explored
"Those who follow my films are well prepared - they are warriors! They are formidable. T...
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Techniques Of Terror: Carl Dreyer's Danish Gothic Dissected
The films of the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer conjure up a very special kind of dr...
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Back To The Führer: Iron Sky Director Interviewed
Hyped into a notorious online sensation months before it was unveiled to great fanfare at...
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Brötzmann: That's When The World Is Mine Director Interviewed
Berlin-based director Uli M Schueppel has always been fascinated by artists who relentles...
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Reel Gone: A Useful Life And Cinema's Premature Nostalgia
Dictaphone tape players, film reels, postage parcels, projector machines: A Useful Life (...
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Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed
Writing and making films is an accumulative process. While some directors gain instant no...
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Golden Bear Necessities: Berlinale 2012 Explored
There are no innocent buildings in Berlin. Every wall is stained with blood, every ruin a...
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Beyond The Seven Samurai: Ozu And Imamura On DVD
The tale is a familiar one from film history. Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon is selected for c...
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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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