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Features:
Vomit
Paul Thomas Anderson and Freedom
Chris Nolan is a big fat liar
Cannes 2012
Sion Sono Interview
Betrayal in Westerns
When Men Betray Men
Bog roll
: toilets in film
Suck my dick:
Female action heroes in cinema
Everybody Dies
: Films when the body count is the same as the cast list.
Rape in Cinema:
an article I've been mulling over for some time.
Malick's Magic Hour
: an article on the elusive film maker and his work.
Dog Days
: Strange news reports of imminent disaster? A strange feeling that the end of days are upon us? Time to buy a dog.
Attack of the Frozen Things
: an article about the frozen in science fiction and horror, from
The Thing
on...
FightBook
: how
The Social Nightwork
and
Fight Club
are basically the same movie.
Don't Look Now:
sees just what a dirty film is.
I
llegal Aliens: Racism in Science Fiction:
This is an article that could easily stretch into a book, the subject is so vast.
Haneke, Bitte?
How Hateful is Haneke?
The Curriculum Vitae of Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley
A new way to look at the
Alien
franchise.
Reviews:
Nosferatu
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Holy Motors
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rumble Fish
Tetsuo
Tetsuo II
The Fly
Himizu
The Devils
Gothic
Altered States
Carnage
Punishment Park
Shame
Best Films of 2011
Best Festival Films of 2011
A Man Vanishes
The Ballad of Narayama
Manhunter
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Days of Heaven
Funeral Parade of Roses
Sacrifice
Ivan's Childhood
I Saw the Devil
Tenebrae
Deep Red
Pi
Cinespect
Sergio Corbucci
Letter from Venice 1
Letter from Venice 2
Letter from Venice 3
The Wild Geese
The Pusher Trilogy
The King of Marvin Gardens and
Five Easy Pieces
reconsidered.
Matteo Garrone: The Neo Unrealist
Static Mass Emporium
This website gives me an opportunity to delve into some of the older films that I've enjoyed watching and get a chance to revisit.
The Lion in Winter
Only God Forgives
The Belly of an Architect
Gravity
Fear X
Staircase
Point Blank
Sergio Leone
The Wild Geese
Amadeus
Kingdom of Heaven
Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal
The Brood
The Cable Guy
Deer Hunter
Solaris
Das Boot
Stalker
Film-Philosophy
For over ten years, I have written for
film-philosophy
and have a host of articles and book reviews published there.
American 70s Cinema
Steven Speilberg
David Lynch
Roberto Rosselini
Sergio Leone
Independent Cinema
Independent Cinema (2)
Terrence Malick
Michael Haneke
CineVue
Reviews:
Cannes 2015: Our picks of the Competition programme
An
Our Little Sister
Mia Madre
Maryland' review
Louder Than Bombs
The Sea of Trees
Irrational Man
Tale of Tales
Sicario
Marguerite & Julien
Cemetery of Splendour
Green Room
M
ountains May Depart
Youth
Love
Alias María
Dope
The Little Prince
Macbeth
Valley of Love
Chronic
Mon Roi
The Lobster
Measure of a Man
The Assassin
Son of Saul
Cannes 2015: 'Dheepan', Palme d'Or
Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard's 'Dheepan' wins Palme d'Or
Rams
The Treasure
The Wakhan Front
Timbuktu
Les Combattants
The Offence
Everyone's Going to Die
It Follows
Still the Water
Going Clear
Town That Dreaded Sundown
Big Eyes
Amy
Still Alice
Salt of the Earth
The Decent One
Network
Son of a Gun
The Golden Dream
Point and Shoot
The Great British Train Robbery
Filmed in Supermarionation
Rollerball
Effie Gray
Look of Silence
Far from Men
These are the Rules
The Last Hammer Blow
Bypass
In the Basement
Red Amnesia
Fires on the Plain
Birdman
The Postman's White Nights
A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence
Messi
The Price of Fame
Tales
Pasolini
Black Souls
The President
The Humbling
99 Homes
She's Funny that Way
Manglehorn
Court
Burying the Ex
Cymbeline
Good Kill
La Trattativa
Jackie and Ryan
The Cut
Sivas
Three Hearts
Hungry Hearts
Senza Nessuna Pieta
Fill the Void
My Stuff
Fire in the Blood
The Robber
The Counsellor
F1: Life on the Limit
Plot for Peace
Thor: The Dark World
Muscle Shoals
The Epic of Everest
Rush
The Three Colours Trilogy
Leviathan
The Act of Killing
A Street in Palermo
The Police Officer's Wife
Night Moves
Tom at the Farm
Gravity
Miss Violence
Stray Dogs
The Unknown Known
Girlfriend in a Coma
Midnight Son
Dead Europe
The Master
To The Wonder
Passion
Pieta
The Company you Keep
Me Too
The Fifth Season
Disconnect
Lines of Wellington
Outrage Beyond
Something in the Air
It was the Son
Superstar
Paradise Faith
Betrayal
The Iceman
Tai Chi 0
At Any Price
I
nsomnia
Jaws
Broken
Sightseers
In the Fog
The Paperboy
Cosmopolis
On the Road
Holy Motors
Lawless
Beyond the Hills
In Another Country
Amour
Killing Them Softly
Moonrise Kingdom
The Hunt
Reality
Paradise Love
Rust and Bone
After Lucia
Le Grand Soir
The Student
Mystery
Confessions of a Child of the Century
God's Horses
Children of Sarajevo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Gimme the Loot
Antiviral
The Sapphires
Woody Allen Documentary
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life is Beautiful
Snowtown
Moneyball
Trishna
The Conformist
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Against the Current
Maniac Cop
One from the Heart
The Outsiders
Wuthering Heights
Carnage
Alps
Dark Horse
Terrafirma
Amelie
Senna
Faust
Texas Killing Fields
Killer Joe
Contagion
Features:
RIP Ken Russell
US TV Drama and the Apocalypse
Anatomy of a Hit Man
Alternate Takes
Features:
Survival in Contemporary Cinema
Notes on the Economic Crisis and Cinema
The Inconclusive Apocalypse
The Avengers Dissemble
Wes Anderson
Reviews:
V/H/S
Cosmopolis
This Must Be the Place
The Grey
Take Shelter
Rampart
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Margin Call
Shame
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
That Girl in Yellow Boots
Wuthering Heights
Le Quattro Volte
Ironclad
Cell 211
Hobo With a Shotgun
Potiche
Countdown to Zero
Tree of Life
13 Assassins
The Messenger
Meek's Cutoff
Mammuth
Essential Killing
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