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Venus as a Boy: Pink Narcissus at 55
“Unfortunately, I’m addicted to dreaming,” James Bidgood said in a 2010 interview with Butt Magazine when describing his relationship with fantasy.…
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Love Me Tender review – quietly devastating…
Some films ask to be watched; Love Me Tender asks to be felt. Anna Cazenave Cambet’s quietly devastating adaptation of Constance…
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The Summer Book review – dismally cosy
This film is aimed at a very specific niche of Tove Jansson fandom – it’s for an elite tier who aren’t…
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Behind the Window Display: Cinema’s Desperate…
The first time we see Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire in Backrooms, the furniture store owner squints his eyes at the front…
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In Praise of Hiroshi Teshigahara: Surveyor of the Abyss
As The Face of Another turns 60, the Japanese New Wave director’s cinematic battlegrounds of alienation, exploitation and fractured identity…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – slavish fan…
Will Tom Holland, who we just saw struggling to live up to his father’s legacy in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, ever grow…
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Fleabag at 10: A Legacy Shaped by Mistakes
In the first episode, Fleabag-as-narrator initially presents as a woman in control of her own story, the type of cosmopolitan best…
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Ish review – a vital coming-of-age tale
Imran Perretta’s feature debut follows two best friends whose bond is torn apart by racial profiling and a traumatic police…
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Eye of the Giant: Cinema’s Cyclops Problem
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is so stuffed with technical triumphs that singling out one feels a little like complimenting Poseidon on his…
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London’s New Silent Cinema Wave
Silent cinema has long had a reputation of antiquity, seen by most of the 21st century film audience as outdated, irrelevant…
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