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Trance
Danny Boyle's best films possess an exhilarating sense of forward momentum, and Trance is a perfect fit for the director's talents as it moves swiftly t... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Promised Land
Fracking is a hot-button issue, but you wouldn't know it from Promised Land, which barely stirs any passions as it trundles through a mundane plot. Matt Damo... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Paradise: Faith
Situated in the middle of Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy, it's hard to avoid the feeling that Paradise: Faith is the weakest film of the three, but i... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Drake Doremus on Breathe In
With his long-distance romance drama Like Crazy, writer-director Drake Doremus had one of the breakout hits of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film's de... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Runaway Train
A surprise contender at the 1986 Academy Awards, Andrei Konchalovsky’s thriller Runaway Train transcends its potentially trashy B-movie premise with co... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Plein Soleil
Alain Delon was a movie star with uncommon good looks and charisma, but only a few directors really knew how to fully exploit his particular gifts. Ren&eacut... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints might ultimately be a triumph of craft over content, but when the craft is this impressive it seems churlish to complain. Davi... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Douglas Sirk's penultimate film is something of an anomaly in his body of work, but it's also perhaps the most personal and interesting film he ever made. A ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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La Notte
Has any director ever been as adept at exploring the spaces that exist between people as Michelangelo Antonioni? His 1961 film, La Notte, is the story of a m... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Exhibition
After two impressive features that established Joanna Hogg as a distinctive voice in British cinema, her third film, Exhibition, finds the filmmake... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Stranger Danger: Alain Guiraudie on Stranger by the Lake
Stranger by the Lake is a film that takes place in a single location and is populated by just a handful of characters – but from these meagre ingredien... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Serpico
As seemingly the only straight-arrow cop in a corrupt-to-the-core NYPD, an increasingly hirsute Al Pacino gives one of his most iconic performances in Serpic... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Frank
Although it has been co-written by former Oh Blimey Big Band member Jon Ronson, Frank is not a biopic of Frank Sidebottom or his creator Chris Sievey. Instea... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Labor Day
A change of pace for Jason Reitman, and a near-disastrous one, Labor Day is an earnest attempt to make an old-fashioned romance that can’t take flight ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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National Gallery
Frederick Wiseman spent months editing the reams of footage he shot on location, but what's remarkable about the finished product is how effortless it feels.... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Mommy
Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison between the two films highl... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Louder than Words: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy on The Tribe
“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothing yet!” When Al Jolson startled cinemagoers with that epochal line in 1927’s The Jazz ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Guy Maddin interview: we enter The Forbidden Room
Misfit director Guy Maddin brings cinema's past to life in new film The Forbidden Room. He tells us about trying to create a sense of disinhibited wonder on ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Bone Tomahawk
If you’ve been waiting ages for a verbose and bloody Western starring Kurt Russell, then you’ve just hit the jackpot. There’s a risk of Bon... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Comfort and Joy
Bill Forsyth's Comfort and Joy underwhelmed at the box-office on its release in 1984 and has subsequently been out of circulation for many years,&n... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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The Red Turtle
The Red Turtle is a Studio Ghibli film, but not as we know it. For the Japanese studio's first international co-production they have enlisted Michaël Du... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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François Ozon on Frantz
The one consistent factor in François Ozon’s career has been his capacity to surprise. Frantz is the prolific director’s 16th&nb... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk opens with an eerie quiet as a group of young British soldiers wander through a ghost town, sheets of German propaganda falling from the sky, before ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the most expensive French film ever made and there's no denying that the budget is all up there on the sc... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Maudie
Maude Lewis lived a singular life. A hunched figure afflicted by debilitating arthritis, Lewis spent decades living in a tiny shack in Nova Scotia, where she... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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A Prayer Before Dawn
What must it feel like to be thrown into a prison in Thailand, where you can't even speak the language and you know that your life isn't worth a damn to the ... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Cemetery of Splendour
Apichatpong Weerasethakul has by now established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers, but the unsung hero in his work is Jenjira Pongpas, th... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Hangmen Also Die!
Hangmen Also Die! may have been inspired by the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, but in Fritz Lang’s film the famous murder happens offscreen. Lang ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
We already know that there will be at least four sequels to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, so couldn't J.K. Rowling have saved some of this first f... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Kick-Ass
Do you really need superpowers to be a superhero? Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) doesn't think so. This geeky teen relies on nothing more than his own determi... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago