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One From The Heart: Francis Ford Coppola’s Misunderstood Musical At 40
By 1982, Francis Ford Coppola was on a run of critical and commercial successes that began a de...
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The Souvenir Part II And Joanna Hogg's Relationship With Class
“I feel as though I want to not live my whole life in this very privileged part of the world I ...
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The Horror Of The Ordinary: Punch Drunk Love At 20
“I’ve wanted to, for a long time, make a romantic comedy in the most traditional way…you know, ...
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When Will We Learn? On The Disappointing Docs Of Women Scorned
There is a strange, empty promise with a certain kind of documentary film that audiences will f...
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Fox Heads On Sticks: Michael Cumming On The Continuing Legacy Of Brass Eye
It is fairly straightforward to place Brass Eye in the family tree of British broadcast comedy ...
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Stumblin' In: Licorice Pizza And Paul Thomas Anderson's Young Loves
Alana Kane is lost. She’s a 25-year-old woman halfway between adolescence and adulthood. She ha...
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Hack The Matrix: How Johnny Mnemonic Predicted 2021
Sometimes it’s difficult to believe that we’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st cen...
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I Should Have Been There: Depeche Mode's 101 Revisited
Here is my story when it comes to Depeche Mode's concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Californ...
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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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