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Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's astounding new film opens with the horrific sounds of 9/11 played over a black screen and it ends with the death of Osama bin Laden; its su... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Arriving in cinemas just after the NSA surveillance scandal and the one-year anniversary of Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian embassy, the release of W... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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A Hijacking
The understated manner in which the taking of a cargo ship occurs in A Hijacking is indicative of Tobias Lindholm's approach to the subject. He avoids the sc... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Like Someone in Love
While Woody Allen’s recent European ventures have produced distinctly mixed results, Abbas Kiarostami’s travels are proving to be much more rewar... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Paradise: Hope
The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is the most heartfelt and uplifting of the three, which comes as both a surprise and a blessed relief... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ feminist novel Foxfire might seem like an unlikely choice for Laurent Cantet, but the material actually feels like ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Is the Warmest Colour made history at Cannes this year when its leads, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, shared the Palme d'Or with dir... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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8½
Eight and a half films into his career, Fellini decided it was time to turn the camera inward. 8½ is a portrait of a creatively blocked filmmaker... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Broken Circle Breakdown
Breaking up a film's narrative chronology is always a risky endeavour. If not used judiciously and purposefully, such a tactic can appear to be nothing more ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers’ latest success is a film about failure. Llewyn Davis (Isaac) is a talented singer-songwriter barely eking out an existence in the Gr... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is apparently the passion project that Peter Berg directed Battleship for, and his enthusiasm for the material is evident in every frame. The f... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman's films are the purest examples of documentary filmmaking that it's possible to find. There are no onscreen captions in his films, no music... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The Theory of Everything
What can you do with a film like The Theory of Everything? It’s exactly what it intends to be: a straightforward potted history of a real-life figure t... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Birdman
The two consistent traits in Alejandro González Iñárritu's body of work are his directorial virtuosity and his ability to get 100% commi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Saluting Hollywood's Maverick: Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the Nashville director
"I couldn't make a conventional film about an unconventional filmmaker." That was the credo documentarian Ron Mann worked to as he developed his new film Alt... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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John Wick
The name John Wick seems to send shivers down the spine of anyone who utters it in Chad Stahelski’s impressively lean and wry thriller, and it’s ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Wild River
Elia Kazan didn’t want Montgomery Clift for Wild River – even delaying in the hope of luring Brando – but the troubled star gives a mo... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Past and Present: Olivier Assayas on Clouds of Sils Maria
For much of the past four years, Olivier Assayas has been stuck in the past. His epic television series Carlos told the story of the notorious terrorist Carl... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Timbuktu
One of the many memorable sequences in Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu depicts a group of teenage boys playing football without a ball, as ball games have be... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The Lobster
The cinematic worlds that Yorgos Lanthimos creates are defined by their rules and codes of behaviour, and the drama in them comes from the consequences faced... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Results
If Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess was his most defiantly uncommercial film to date, Results initially seems like the first time this filmmaker has co... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Arabian Nights
At the start of Arabian Nights, director Miguel Gomes runs away from his own film, but it sometimes feels like this gargantuan project has run away from him.... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Assassin
With The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's enigmatic martial arts tale, we find a director at the peak of his powers How good is Hou Hsiao-Hsien? In his... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Love
Gaspar Noé's Love was shot in 3D, but it doesn't add any dimensions to its characters “My biggest dream is to make a movie that truly depicts s... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Pass
BFI Southbank's LGBT film festival Flare kicked off in fine style last night with The Pass, a sharp and richly emotional drama about a closeted Premier Leagu... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Nasty Baby
Nasty Baby is a meandering, off-kilter film that alternates between passages of amusement and aggravation for much of its running time, before it suddenly sn... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Three Days of the Condor
Sidney Pollack’s paranoid thriller Three Days of the Condor comes to Blu-ray from Masters of Cinema Three Days of the Condor might have been viewed as... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Todd Solondz on his controversial career
For over two decades, Todd Solondz has wryly explored the lives of middle-class suburbanites trapped by their own melancholy and anxieties. We speak to him a... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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David Mackenzie: Trying to Avoid Genre
Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, director of Young Adam, Perfect Sense and Starred Up, talks genre, atmosphere and shooting under pressure ahead of the re... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Paul Schrader interview: “Movies aren't going away”
After a bruising experience on his last film, Dying of the Light, which was taken off him on completion and re-cut, Paul Schrader is back with full artistic ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago