James Marsh
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Josef von Sternberg’s cautionary tale is best-remembered for Marlene Dietrich’s risque performance as a small-town showgirl, but in truth the film is really about Emil Jannings’ bewitched school professor. When… Read More
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A gentle, sweet-natured story of the unlikely friendship between a young rookie filmmaker (Oguri Shun) who comes to the countrysie to shoot a zombie movie, and a reclusive lumberjack (Yakusho… Read More
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This Thai horror anthology is an early contender for worst film of 2013. Three different ghost stories from a trio of relatively new directors, fails to deliver scares, entertainment or… Read More
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Lu Chuan follows up his powerful City of Life and Death with this big-budget retelling of one of China’s many pivotal power struggles. Liu Ye, Daniel Wu and Chang Chen… Read More
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Inspired as much by my frustration at being unable to see either Spielberg’s Lincoln or Tarantino’s Django Unchained yet – two high-profile awards contenders both dealing with the topic of… Read More
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A surprising change of pace after the profound intoxicating power of Blue, this second chapter in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is a lighter, goofier affair. Karol (Zbigniew… Read More
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After finally watching Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, it seemed the perfect opportunity to revisit Les Blank’s excellent documentary on the torturous making of the film. Herzog’s undertaking uncannily mirrors that of his… Read More
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Werner Herzog continues his troubled, yet fruitful partnership with actor Klaus Kinski to tell this empassioned and rather insane story of an Irish opera lover in turn-of-the-century Peru, chasing his… Read More
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After the phenomenal success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy it was a foregone conclusion that sooner or later we would see The Hobbit adapted for the big… Read More
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The Spanish crew behind supernatural thriller The Orphanage turns its attentions to the real-life horrors of the 2004 Asian Tsunami disaster, but the results prove too exploitative and insensitive to… Read More
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Were we ever going to be prepared for SKYFALL? When Sam Mendes was announced as director of the 23rd official James Bond movie, there were notable rumblings on the possibility… Read More
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After an extended hiatus we have returned! In our latest dispatch Fernando and I discuss the many cinematic delights of this year’s PiFan Film Festival in South Korea, highlightng films… Read More
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I’m not an expert on American history. I’m not even American, and before tonight my knowledge of Abraham Lincoln didn’t stem far beyond acknowledging he was the tall dude with… Read More
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It is an incredibly busy week of new releases, but quantity – it transpires – does not necessarily mean quality, as the distributors jostle to dump their non-blockbusters in a… Read More
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PROMETHEUS should stand pretty much unopposed at the top of the box office charts this week, as there are only three new films hitting screens today, and none are likely… Read More
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In the year 2089, archeologists Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a series of matching symbols in various unrelated ancient sites around the world. They lead an interstellar… Read More
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First-time feature director Rupert Sanders finds himself at the helm of this ambitious, straight-faced adaptation of the Brothers’ Grimm fairy-tale, with Kristen Stewart cast as the “fairest of them all”,… Read More
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Without a prominent blocbuster opening this week, distributors scrabble to release whatever they have left in their slate before the onslaught of summer behemoths arrives. As a result it is… Read More
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