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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Appropriate Behaviour
"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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The Wonders
Vivid and grainy 16mm photography evokes the notion of a family out of step in Alice Rohrwacher's sophomore feature, The Wonders. A beguiling and impressioni... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Iris
As a modest portrait of an ostentatious fashion icon, Iris is an absolute delight. The final film by the equally legendary documentarian Albert Maysles (befo... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The Unknown Girl
The Dardenne brothers are not the kind of directors one associates with genre fare, and while The Unknown Girl meets all of the prerequisites of their social... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Look of Silence
The prospect of crafting a worthy successor to the phenomenal The Act of Killing is a daunting one, but with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has rise... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Ant-Man
As self-aware as the name demands, Marvel's latest hero belies his size to be a hugely enjoyable addition to the studio's growing superhero universe. Helmed ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Half a century ago, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut sat down together for a week to discuss the former’s career in its entirety. The... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Snow is Coming: Game of Thrones' Kit Harington on his new film Testament of Youth
Kit Harington would seem to have been catapulted to star status by his lead heartthrob role in the wildly successful Game of Thrones. It’s not been qui... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The Martian
Damon lays on his all-American charm as Mark Watney, a botanist left stranded on the surface of the red planet after he's hit by debris and presumed dead by ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Anomalisa
Over the course of Charlie Kaufman's cinematic career, he's been fascinated with the complexities of the human mind and the vehicles – whether they be ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Film on Film: Five great movies about movies
Inspired by critic Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, we pay tribute to those great ouroboroi of cinema: films about film. Below are five of the best, from a do... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Personal Shopper
Three little dots. There's little in contemporary society as adept at inducing anxiety as the pulsating ellipsis that represents a friend composing a respons... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor going through a crisis in the new work from Eden director Mia Hansen-Løve “I’m luc... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Lovecraft in the 80s: How Stuart Gordon sexed-up HP Lovecraft
“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars...” These may be words penned by HP Lovecraft in his short story... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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London Film Festival: Steve Jobs
There are few writers operating in mainstream media today who exhibit the kind of auteurial control we see from Aaron Sorkin. His screenplay for Steve Jobs &... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Miguel Gomes on three-part epic Arabian Nights
Fantasy and reality blend in Miguel Gomes's epic three-part remix of Scheherazade’s Arabian Nights folktales. We gather round the campfire with the Por... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Arabian Nights and five more alternative trilogies
Superhero movies don't have the monopoly on trilogies, as Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes's three-part take on the One Thousand and One Nights tales attests. He... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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The Second Mother
Contradictions are the order of the day in Anna Muylaert's subversive yet heartwarming The Second Mother. The tone is a deft balance between class drama... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Kieślowski and co: Play Poland 2016 Preview
2016 has been dubbed the year of Krzysztof Kieślowski, being that it's 20 years since the great Polish filmmaker’s death. Tributes and retrospectives h... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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La La Land
“How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you’re such a traditionalist?” John Legend’s Keith asks Sebastian (Gosling) in La La Land. I... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Fringe Comedy Reviews: Taking Stock
First impressions can be deceptive. Nick Cody comes across as something of a gruff, bear-like comedian for at least the first quarter of an hour of Bear... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Fern Brady on Fringe success and BBC pilot Radges
'Another 4 star review. Away to masturbate in front of a mirror', tweeted comedian Fern Brady after reading The Skinny's assessment of her Fringe show People... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Death Cab For Cutie @ O2 Academy, 19 November
As forms of protest go, three young guys getting their penises out as evidence of their indifference to Death Cab's tour support is unlikely to catch o... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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London Film Festival: The Assassin and The Witch
The Witch The Witch (★★★★) has the on-screen subtitle of A New England Folktale, and its end credits posit that it’s inspired by folklore, fairy ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Alphabet Video
The Departed - 12 FebMartin Scorcese's latest film is an excellent reinterpretation of the Hong Kong trilogy Infernal Affairs. With an amazing cast (includin... Read more »| Updated about 17 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week: 13-20 Mar
Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart is a personal shopper by day, medium by night, in this mysterious ghost story from Olivier Assayas. Our reviewer, Ben Nic... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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The Films of 2015 so far: Our mid-year report
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (29 Aug-5 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the new comic promo for Thor, the latest from Woody A... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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London Film Festival 2016: The Highlights
1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago