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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

Eighteen-year-old Silviu is serving out the last few days of his four year prison sentence. Called away from his manual labour, Silviu finds an unexpected

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: Undertow

Undertow is very much one of those unusual film beasts, a story which sounds daft on paper but which works well on screen: in a tiny Peruvian fishing village,

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: The Days of Desire

From the very beginning of József Pacskovszki’s The Days of Desire something about it becomes very clear: it is absolutely stunning to look at. Scenes

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: Vacation!

Vacation! starts with a black and white, split-screen sequence in which Sugar, Lorelei, Donna and Dee-dee arrange, through a series of phone calls, to spend an

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Film Festival

EIFF2010: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

The last decade has been an interesting time for fans of Werner Herzog, the madman of world cinema who surely needs no introduction. During the last ten years,

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Documentary, Film Festival

EIFF2010: And Everything Is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh’s body of work has always presented something of a problem for critics, its sheer eclecticism eschewing any easy pigeonholing. Despite

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Live Action

Samson and Delilah DVD

We've been eagerly awaiting the DVD release of Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah to see how well this tale held up to repeating viewings.

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Live Action

The Brothers Bloom

When Rian Johnson’s Brick came out in 2005, the class and confidence shown in the young filmmaker’s directorial debut blew me away. For those of you

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Live Action

The Killer Inside Me

Every year there seems to be a film doing the circuit that is engulfed in controversy and elicits very strong reactions from its audience. Whether it’s Lars

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Article

Moviemaker’s 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen

Time is short, so if you had to boil all the film podcasts vying for your attention down to a perfect 10, then the 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen list in the

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Film Festival

Flatpack Festival 2010

Set in the heart of the Black Country, last week saw the fourth year of Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival, not so much a straight up film festival, but

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Live Action

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Ever since witnessing Anthony Hopkins in his terrifying portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel, Silence

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