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Review: Nostalgia For The Light

Review: Nostalgia For The Light

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has built his reputation on the strength of a number of political documentaries about his native Chile. Two manifest cases in point are his tripartite masterpiece, [...]
Cosmopolis: Cronenberg's newest malaise

Cosmopolis: Cronenberg’s newest malaise

Don DeLillo, one of the greatest living authors writing in the English language, working with David Cronenberg, erstwhile purveyor of body horror and a consistently challenging narrative filmmaker, is a [...]
Prometheus unwound

Prometheus unwound

Prometheus has finally landed in the UK, highly anticipated not just because of the thought of Ridley Scott returning to the Alien universe, but also thanks to its aggressive and [...]
This Must Be The Place

This Must Be The Place

Celebrated European arthouse directors can have a hard time adjusting to filmmaking in America. Just as Woody Allen has struggled to make decent movies outside his native Manhattan through misjudgement [...]
Into The Abyss: A Tale of Life, A Tale of Death

Into The Abyss: A Tale of Life, A Tale of Death

Werner Herzog has always been preoccupied with what he refers to as the “ecstatic truth” – for him, “The deepest essential that defines us as human beings.” This has never [...]