The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
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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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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