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Film Features
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Film Features
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
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Film Reviews
Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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