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Boomerang!
Boomerang!, from 1947, is an early example of 'docu-noir' – a sub-genre in which facts from a real-life incident are used as framework for exploring fi... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Attila Marcel
The last few years have seen some of modern animation’s most acclaimed directors make forays into live action. Notably Brad Bird and Andrew Stanto... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Jimi: All Is by My Side
Jimi: All Is by My Side takes an approach that more musician biopics should, that of honing in on one specific period of Jimi Hendrix's life instead of provi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Manakamana
From Harvard’s experimental Sensory Ethnography Lab, which gave us 2012’s haunting fishing vessel doc Leviathan, comes Manakamana. This is an&nbs... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Love Is Strange
In the vein of classics Tokyo Story and Make Way for Tomorrow, Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange focuses on an older couple who are separated by cir... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Foxcatcher
With Foxcatcher, director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) explores the odd, tense relationship between brothers and Olympic champion wrestlers Mark and Da... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The Voices
There’s an unwritten rule that has been present throughout filmmaking history: when making a movie in which an insane Ryan Reynolds talks to a sour Sco... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Blackhat
Cyber terrorism thriller Blackhat sees director Michael Mann continuing to explore themes found in his earlier works like Heat and Thief, but with a firm foo... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, James Spader voices the eponymous villain, an entity of artificial intelligence that can inhabit seemingly any mechanical host ar... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Maggie
After decades of zombies being used for satirical commentary, a new wave of films seems concerned with heavy exploration of the emotional undercurrent of lov... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Colors
Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Scotland Loves Anime 2015: Preview
Now in its sixth year, October’s Scotland Loves Anime festival is not just the region’s leading exhibitor of Japanese animation on the big screen... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Walk
Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk, based on the events surrounding Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Centre towers, open... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Witch
The Witch has the onscreen subtitle A New England Folktale, and its end credits posit that it’s inspired by folklore, fairytales and journals... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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High-Rise
Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Of the numerous problems with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, one of them is quite succinctly illustrated by one scene in the film’s back half... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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In Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
For the best part of a decade now, Hollywood marketers has shown a penchant for promoting the 'visionary' – you'll be familiar with trailers ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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The Lost City of Z
In charting the life of archaeologist and explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a fabled place in 1925, James Gray’s classical ep... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: Suntan
Suntan, the new film from director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, is firmly in the same mode of disturbing content and discomfort as other works from the so-call... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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The Wave
Set in a real tourist village in Norway that actually is under constant threat from potential mountain erosion into the surrounding fjord, The Wave can be se... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Hell or High Water
After a career high with prison drama Starred Up, Hell or High Water sees British director David Mackenzie venture away from incarcerated criminals in the UK... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Kate Plays Christine
In Robert Greene’s non-fiction feature Kate Plays Christine, actor Kate Lyn Sheil painstakingly prepares to play the role of TV reporter Christine Chub... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Morris from America director: "I humped my pillow a lot"
We spoke to American director Chad Hartigan about his new indie Morris from America (coming to DVD this month), autobiographical filmmaking, working with per... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Luca Guadagnino on Call Me by Your Name
“I think about the unconscious.” Luca Guadagnino tells us over the phone. “I think my gaze goes where my desire wants to go. I don’t ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Michael Winterbottom on Wolf Alice doc On the Road
“Living on a bus is not to be recommended.”We’re speaking to the ever prolific British director Michael Winterbottom about his new film, On... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Scotland Loves Anime 2017: Preview
Each year, Scotland Loves Anime gives animation fans a chance to see an eclectic selection of Japanese fare on the big screen. This year marks the eighth ins... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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The Imposter
In 1997, over three years after a child’s disappearance in Texas, a seemingly traumatised teenager in Spain claimed to be the missing boy. Nicholas Bar... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus
The director of The People vs. George Lucas returns with a light-hearted documentary about another pop culture phenomenon, one who may have received even mor... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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A Late Quartet
Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagn... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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GFF 2013: Vito
The life of the late Vito Russo, an activist for both LBGT rights and AIDS awareness, has particular resonance for cinephiles, being that he was also a film ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago