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Mother Knows Best: Bong Joon-ho on Mother
Bong Joon-ho is a filmmaker who loves to upend audience expectations. After making The Host, South Korea's highest-grossing film of all time, he made the sur... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola is in his 70s now, but Tetro feels like a young man's film. It's a deeply personal picture that's overflowing with exuberance an... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a unique and mesmerising piece of filmmaking, but it won't be to... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Let Me In
Matt Reeves' Let Me In may be a pointless exercise, but as pointless exercises go, it's not a bad effort. This English-language remake of the cult Swedish ho... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Blue Valentine
In Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine we witness both the birth and death of a relationship. Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) have been toget... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Lucy Walker Interview or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb
Are you ready for the scariest film of the year? Lucy Walker's new documentary Countdown to Zero examines the ever-present nuclear threat, depicting it as a ... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Win Win
Win Win is a character-driven film that is blessed with real characters; people we can understand, be interested in, and care about. That has been th... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
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The Skin I Live In
After going through the motions with a couple of features that failed to match the sharp wit of his best work, Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In is... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Wuthering Heights
There have been many screen versions of Wuthering Heights but we've never seen one quite like this. Andrea Arnold has brought her bold, uncompromising vision... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Grand Master: Terence Davies in interview
As gratifying as it was to see Terence Davies' 2008 documentary Of Time and The City receive such unexpected and deserved acclaim, The Deep Blue Sea feels... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Deadpan Poet: Director Aki Kaurismäki in interview
Finnish master of deadpan Aki Kaurismäki discusses his new film, Le Havre, and his future as a filmmaker It can sometimes be dangerous to make assumpti... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Into The Abyss
Werner Herzog's latest enquiry into human nature takes him to Texas, where he explores the fallout from a decade-old murder. Into the Abyss is built around i... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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A Dangerous Method
Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) sh... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Artist
It's hard to imagine more of a guaranteed crowdpleaser than The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius' stupendously entertaining homage to silent cinema, which is like... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Where Do We Go Now?
Nadine Labaki's new film is called Where Do We Go Now? but a more pertinent question might be, 'What was she thinking?' Having made an impressive directorial... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Detachment
When substitute teacher Henry Barthes (Brody) walks into a classroom of troubled teens, we are primed to expect a story of education and redemption, but that... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Movie Løve: Director Mia Hansen-Løve in interview
"I'm sorry, I speak a lot," Mia Hansen-Løve says, suddenly breaking off in mid-sentence. "It's because I know you are my last interview today and I wa... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Goodbye First Love
Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love covers the well-worn ground of teenage romance, but it does so with a sensitivity and honesty that makes the subj... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Love Crime
Love Crime is the last film Alain Corneau made before his death, and it initially looks like it might act as a fitting swansong. Kristin Scott Thomas and Lud... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Sessions
With the majority of American films being terrified of approaching sex in anything like an honest fashion, the frankness and good humour of The Sessions is a... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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In the House
After his limp 70s-set comedy Potiche, the latest offering from François Ozon finds the director back on top form. With its exploration of voyeurism a... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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This Is the End
This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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I'm So Excited!
After making an unsettling and memorable foray into thriller territory with The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar’s new film feels like a consciou... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Our Children
After screenings of Our Children, most discussions will surely centre on Joachim Lafosse's choice of framing device. The film begins with a scene informing u... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Red River
Howard Hawks made so many great films that it’s inevitable a few are unjustly overlooked. One such film is 1948 western Red River, which offers a prime... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a love story, and it appropriately feels as if it has been made with the heart more than the head. This debut feature ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Stranger by the Lake
When was the last time you saw an erotic thriller that worked simultaneously on both levels? Stranger by the Lake is the rare film that integrates explicit s... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Frank Filmmaking: Lenny Abrahamson on Frank
It might seem perverse for a low-budget independent film to secure the services of a rising, recently Oscar-nominated star and then hide him behind a cartoon... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Norte, the End of History
Filipino director Lav Diaz has been working consistently since the late 1990s but, with most of his films running for anything up to nine hours, the rel... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Back in the Habit: Pawel Pawlikowski on Ida
A year has passed since Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida was first unveiled for festival audiences, and in the course of that year it has quickly become one of the mo... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago