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Stalag 17
Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Scott Graham on Iona
Scott Graham follows up 2012's Shell with Iona, another wind-swept rural tale of familial malcontent, this time set on the elemental Hebridean island of the ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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James White
Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Jeremy Saulnier on punks v nazis movie Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier follows up revenge thriller Blue Ruin with Green Room, a nail-biting punks v nazis siege movie. He muses on punk rock, genre labels and casti... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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A Bigger Splash
Jacques Deray's La Piscine, from 1969 – a drama of sexual jealousy and possessiveness – featured big, sexy stars (Alain Delon, Romy Schneide... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Moonlight
Moonlight is a film that consistently upends expectations. With coming-of-age dramas, which is the easiest subgenre to slot Jenkins' film into, too many... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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De Palma
Great New Hollywood filmmaker Brian De Palma holds court on his rollercoaster career, which includes films like Carrie, Scarface and Body Double The prospec... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Day for Night
Though The 400 Blows and Jules et Jim have since come to define the work of François Truffaut for the casual cinema enthusiast, there was a time when ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Benedict Andrews on Rooney Mara's powerful drama Una
“In retrospect, I understand what a motherfucker of a thing it is to get made.” We’re speaking to Adelaide-born, Reykjavik-based Bened... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Detroit
With the same you-are-there handheld aesthetic that characterised her Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, the opening of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit&nb... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Fresh Blood: 5 mindblowing vampire movies
Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Raoul Peck on I Am Not Your Negro & James Baldwin
In such troubled times as our current moment, where Western society seems doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past by stalling or demolishing progress in va... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Michael Showalter on The Big Sick
“I think the writing and directing is more natural for me; it’s a more comfortable place.” The Skinny is talking to Michael Showalter, the ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Marianna Palka on Bitch, GLOW & feminist films
The Skinny is chatting to Marianna Palka, the Scottish writer, director and actor, who's fresh off the close of the Sundance London film festival where her l... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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The Levelling
The phrase “quietly devastating” can be a tad overused in the realm of film criticism, but it’s all too appropriate when a modestly scaled ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Baby Driver
From his ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End) to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, some of the best recurring eleme... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Compliance
Compliance opens with the words ‘Inspired by True Events’ in giant lettering and later reveals that incidents similar to those it depicts have oc... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Leviathan
Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s non-narrative, anthropological collaboration – both a documentary and an abstract horror film – depicts the m... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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World War Z
World War Z is based on Max Brooks’ bestselling novel of the same name, a globe-trotting, multi-perspective document of a zombie apocalypse, rife with ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Epic
Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Sunshine on Leith
The Proclaimers’ back catalogue makes a fine backbone for this largely fun, nicely sincere and well-staged musical. Director Dexter Fletcher deftly han... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The White Dove / Josef Kilián
Before Kes, Czech master František Vláčil's 1960 feature debut The White Dove told of another young boy caring for a prized bird, her... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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In a World...
Actress Lake Bell makes her feature writing and directing debut with this funny ensemble piece set within and around the world of voice-over artists. Carol S... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Museum Hours
In this documentary-fiction hybrid, a guard (Sommer) at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum strikes up a friendship with a lonely Canadian tourist (O&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Mistaken for Strangers
On the surface, Mistaken for Strangers would seem to be a standard tour rockumentary, in this case following Ohio indie outfit The National during the mainst... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Night Moves
In her follow-up to Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt’s trademark languid, stripped-back style is maintained for her most narrative-driven film to d... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Wes Cravin': The Grand Budapest and its Cinematic Influences
At the Berlinale press conference for The Grand Budapest Hotel’s world premiere in early February, Wes Anderson named several films that served as majo... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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The Night Is Young (Mauvais sang)
If Leos Carax's 2012 film Holy Motors was a demented lament for 'the death of cinema', his 1986 sophomore feature The Night Is Young (known as Mauvais s... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Welcome to New York
Abel Ferrara’s blunt-force Welcome to New York is a thinly-veiled fictionalisation of the sexual assault incident that disgraced former IMF chief Domin... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Love, betrayal and escape in rural Texas drive the pulpy small-town noir We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the promising feature debut of director brothers Sim... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago