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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 8 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 8 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 8 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 10 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 12 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 13 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 12 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 12 years ago -
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GFF 2013: The History of Future Folk
Arriving on our planet to evaluate it for invasion and resettlement, General Trius (d’Aulaire), later called Bill, is seduced by the sounds of music, a... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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GFF 2013: Public Enemy No. 1
Following last year’s very successful Gene Kelly affair, this year’s actor retrospective concerns another of Golden Age Hollywood’s brighte... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Big Wedding
Based on the 2006 French film Mon Frère Se Marie, Justin Zackham’s The Big Wedding is a huge misfire that squanders its collection of stars on c... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: This Is Martin Bonner
Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Pacific Rim
Fantasy man Guillermo del Toro’s latest, Pacific Rim, is a large-scale love letter to Japanese sci-fi, but also an accessible blockbuster imbued w... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Elysium
South Africa-set District 9 had a clear apartheid allegory built into its hyper-violent sci-fi stylings, and writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Natan
When a person is murdered and the body burned, all that is left is a name and a sum total of everything said about them; distort the shape of their life's ou... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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One. On. One: Filmmaker Mania Akbari in conversation
The last few years have seen a noticeable rise in Iranian cinema’s international profile, both through relatively mainstream breakthrough success for f... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Lovelace
A very strong performance from Amanda Seyfried anchors this biopic of the most notorious period of Linda Boreman’s life, that of her troubled marriage ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Thor: The Dark World
In a flashback sequence that opens the Marvel brand’s latest superhero sequel, we discover how Thor’s grandfather, Bor, previously conquered the ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Parkland
Released on the 50th year since JFK’s assassination, this ensemble drama takes place over the days surrounding the murder, concerning itself with the e... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Love Is Not What It Used to Be (El amor no es lo que era)
In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Sorcerer
A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its comple... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Wings
Wings, one of the final big Hollywood productions of the silent era, is most famous for being the Best Picture winner at the inaugural Academy Awards, or rat... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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August: Osage County
William Friedkin’s last two directorial efforts (Bug and Killer Joe) were Tracy Letts adaptations, and it’s a crying shame he didn't helm the fil... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Muppets Most Wanted
A musical nod to diminishing returns for sequels opens Muppets Most Wanted, and while this is an overall inferior product compared to its immediate forerunne... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Something, Anything
Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Life May Be
Life May Be is a five part cinematic correspondence between Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins and Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, made over the last year, du... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The LEGO Movie
Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made a name for themselves by transforming dubious prospects for film adaptations (21 and 22 Jump Street; Cloudy with a ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago