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Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Wrap Up

With a few weeks’ perspective (and a whole lot of sleep) on our side after the intense 10 days that was SXSW 2011, I asked DN friend Andrew Johnson, host

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Live Action

We Are What We Are DVD

When Jonathan Swift asserted the logic of cannibalism in his satirical essay A Modest Proposal, he suggested that the poor sell their children to the rich for

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Live Action

Essential Killing

Premiering in competition last year at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, Jerzy Skolimowski’s new film Essential Killing is a largely dialogue

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Live Action

Source Code

From its copious opening aerial shots of Chicago, it’s clear Duncan Jones is letting us know from the outset that his sophomore feature isn’t going

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Asides, Documentary

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

During a live interview with director Werner Herzog after a screening of his 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, journalist Jason Solomons described the

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Documentary

In The Land Of The Free DVD

Vadim Jean’s documentary opens with one of the film’s subjects talking over a telephone line in an interview from prison, before the call is

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Live Action

Submarine

It just goes to show that if you piss and moan about wanting to see something enough (i.e. stating to whoever will listen every time I walked past the poster

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Film Festival, Live Action

SXSW2011: Umshini Wam/Paranmanjang

I realise you’re still waiting to hear about just what I’ve been seeing and who I’ve been talking to at SXSW this year – excuse

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Documentary, Music Video

An Island

In the many years I’ve been attending gigs since being introduced to the wonders of live music, an unwritten rule of etiquette has persisted; in the warm

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Live Action

Archipelago

Christopher, played by real-life painter Christopher Baker, paints shapes into the clouds in his paintings that actually don’t exist as the colourless sky

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Live Action

Involuntary DVD

A man injured at his own party prefers to soldier on through the festivities rather than ruin the night for everyone else; a group of teenage girls pout, preen

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Live Action

Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s

For their eighth year, the Japan Foundation have curated a film season out of their archives to present at the ICA and venues elsewhere in the U.K. For this

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