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Live From Cannes: The Quietus Film Blog Part III
Sound of Noise – Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simnonsson Critics’ week Some of you might have...
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The New Pornographer: A Richard Kern Interview
There are few people who have captured the naked female form in the eye of their lens as much a...
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Live From Cannes: The Quietus Film Blog Part II
Another Year – Mike Leigh Official Selection – Completion Mike Leigh's favourite playground ...
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Live From Cannes: The Quietus Film Blog Part 1
Saturday 15.05.2010 Cannes you make it this year? Some weird energy surrounded the opening o...
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Bigelow's Oscar Shouldn't Have Been The First: Female Directors Wrongly Ignored
Recently, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to ever win an Oscar for directing a film. She...
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South By South West Festival: Music on Film Roundup
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam As the sun sets on downtown Austin, America’s biggest freak-...
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The Clash's Rude Boy 30 Years Later: Ray Gange Interview
30 years ago this month punk’s prime movers The Clash released their first feature-length film ...
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Worst Oscar Winning Films
The Academy Awards have a reputation as the most respected and coveted honor in all of American...
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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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