A Quietus Interview:
James Holden
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Cosmic Communism: Soviet Science Fiction on Film
From the very beginning, Russian communism was cosmic, intergalactic in scope and ambition. E...
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Roundup
Dobry Den! Greetings from Karlovy Vary, the picture-postcard spa town nestled in hilly woodla...
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Welcome To The Dollhouse: Looking Back At The Films Of Todd Solondz
"Fuck family. Fuck motherhood. Fuck the kids. I just don't care any more," says Alison Janney...
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Leaving it to Chance: Maverick Director Nicolas Roeg On Don't Look Now
According to Allan Scott, co-writer of Don’t Look Now, Nicholas Roeg is a "dreadful director"...
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Interview with Djo Munga, Director of Congolese Film Viva Riva!
It has been years since a note-worthy feature film has came out of the Democratic Republic of...
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We Dream On Cardboard: Staff Benda Bilili's Rise From The Streets
It’s often said that football and music offer the two best escape routes out of poverty but, fo...
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Filming The Unfilmable: Joseph Strick's Adaptation of Joyce's Ulysses
For millions of people, June 16th is an important day. On this day, 107 years ago in 1904, tw...
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All Loud on the Eastern Front: Peckinpah's Cross of Iron Revisited
Orson Welles described it as the greatest war film ever made and Quentin Tarantino acknowledg...
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Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?
Plus: Scroll down for Shot From Both Sides: Cinema From The Enemy's Point of View The old adag...
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Setting The Standard: Role Models Reviewed
Making a comedic film requires a very difficult balancing act. As per the conventions of mainst...
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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, 'Mumblecore' Lynchpin
Joe Swanberg made quite an impression at last year's London Film Festival with his latest work ...
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Reviewed
I have put off writing this article for too many days now. The reason for this is not laziness,...
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Cinematic Santas - The Least Convincing And Naughtiest Santas on Film
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, no...
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New Patti Smith Documentary: Dream of Life - Reviewed
A few people, a charmed few, are lucky enough to give off light when a camera is on them. Patti...
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Generation Terrorists: The Baader-Meinhof Group’s Legacy
Growing up on a British Forces base in West Germany at the height of the cold war in the late 7...
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Choke and Cinema's Most Adventurous Book Adaptations
Chuck Palahniuk once said in an interview that his goal as a writer was not to make books which...
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