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Branchage Festival 2010: Scanner On His Magic Lantern Soundtrack
A Jersey resident and eccentric who died in 2003, the late Damer Waddington was an expert on th...
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The Last Grouch On The Left: Josh Saco On The End Of FrightFest
Primal Once again Film4 Frightfest cuts its way through London to land in Leicester Square's E...
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The Human Centipede & Cinema's Finest Mad Scientists
There aren't many films whose premise alone can cause such intrigue and repulsion as that of Th...
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Why Gainsbourg Is Not A Myopic Music Biopic
"I wanted to make a biopic about Serge Gainsbourg and then people told me about the word biopic...
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It Only Hurts When You Laugh: Harmony Korine Interviewed
Not so long ago, ensconced in the lofty confines of the Pelton Arms, a charmingly beige drinkin...
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Breathless with Anticipation: 50 Years of Godard's Classic Film
I have never seen the ending of Breathless, prossibly one of the most talked about and importan...
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The Essential Guide To Writing A Successful Indie Flick
There’s a certain amount of anticipation surrounding Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, as his previous...
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Outdated Technology: Not So Special Effects
Film, in the century plus that it's been around, has grown as an art form at roughly the same r...
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Film Reviews
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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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