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Julian Ross is rubbish at explaining what he does or who he is. All he knows is that he is obsessed with film and music and that is what his life tends to revolve around.

Live Action

Animal Kingdom

"Animal Kingdom succeeds in maintaining a tangible sense of sinister fear and never falling into the trap of allowing violence to become a spectacle."

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

The surprise winner of the Palme d’Or earlier this year at Cannes Film Festival, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives constitutes the final part of a

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Tsai Ming-Liang

Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang is one of the key personalities of the international new wave of slow-cinema and a figure that has continuously strived to

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Never Let Me Go

An adaptation of an acclaimed and beloved novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go paints a conceptually alternative world with a very familiar visual

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Documentary, Film Festival

LIFF2010: Double Tide

A few weeks ago a review of Ruhr by James Benning was submitted as part of the coverage of the 54th London Film Festival, where I proposed Benning’s work as

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Animation, Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: A Town Called Panic

The first stop-motion animation to compete in Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection, A Town Called Panic’s eccentric insanity is not what we have

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Son of Babylon

Set only a few weeks into the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Son of Babylon, winner of the Amnesty Film Award and Peace Prize at the 60th

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: To Walk Beside You

Although it would be a stretch to denounce To Walk Beside You as a mistranslation of the original Japanese title, a direct translation would offer slightly

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival

LIFF2010: Mare’s Tail

Cherry Kino, who programmed Mare’s Tail, is the experimental film strand of the Leeds International Film Festival, though its founder Martha Jurksaitis

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Documentary, Film Festival

LFF2010: Ruhr

Those familiar with James Benning’s name would have known what to expect with his new film Ruhr; slow-cinema taken to its extreme ends. Benning’s work has

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