Adam Solomons
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Lost in Translation: Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ In The Age Of Social Distancing
A claustrophobic yet deeply stylish depiction of a weary, wary surveillance expert, The Conversation in its solitary Hitchcockian eeriness is the ultimate cautionary tale for these lonely weeks and months, finds Adam Solomons
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Lost in Translation: Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ In The Age Of Social Distancing
A claustrophobic yet deeply stylish depiction of a weary, wary surveillance expert, The Conversation in its solitary Hitchcockian eeriness is the ultimate cautionary tale for these lonely weeks and months, finds Adam Solomons
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Matters Of The Heart: 20 Years On, Is High Fidelity The Best Rom-Com Ever Made?
Despite its disagreeable main characters, Stephen Frears’ record store romp still has plenty to offer for the hopeless romantics of the 2020s. Has there been a better failed and healed love story since? Adam Solomons investigates
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Matters Of The Heart: 20 Years On, Is High Fidelity The Best Rom-Com Ever Made?
Despite its disagreeable main characters, Stephen Frears’ record store romp still has plenty to offer for the hopeless romantics of the 2020s. Has there been a better failed and healed love story since? Adam Solomons investigates
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On Greatness: The Wonder Of The Lowest-Grossing Film In UK Box Office History
Long before Parasite conquered the UK’s foreign-language box office and Cold War hit new heights for Polish cinema, Mój Nikifor sold just one ticket in September 2007. But it’s an under-appreciated gem, finds Adam Solomons
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On Greatness: The Wonder Of The Lowest-Grossing Film In UK Box Office History
Long before Parasite conquered the UK’s foreign-language box office and Cold War hit new heights for Polish cinema, Mój Nikifor sold just one ticket in September 2007. But it’s an under-appreciated gem, finds Adam Solomons
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Separate The Game From The Truth: Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die
On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip-hop luminary
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Lifting A Veil: Kurt Wagner Of Lambchop’s Favourite British LPs
Reflecting at length upon his intimate relationship with British music from his office in Nashville, Tennessee, the alt-country veteran at the heart of Lambchop discusses freedom, interpretation and the lasting effect on him of 1970s Sheffield with Luke Cartledge
Baker's Dozen
Multiple Furgasms: Daniel O’Sullivan’s Favourite Albums
With Grumbling Fur's new album Preternaturals out this week as the Quietus Phonographic Corporation's second release, Daniel O'Sullivan, one half of the magickal duo and prolific multi-instrumentalist, sits down to pen us his Baker's Dozen
Baker's Dozen
Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen
As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never
