by Graeme Cole | Mar 31, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
The French critics may loathe him, the film establishment may dismiss him, but Patrice Leconte somehow continues to make his peculiar brand of movies. Graeme Cole watches his latest effort – a buddy story between a robber and a literary professor waiting for a heart operation
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by Antonio Pasolini | Mar 31, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
If the reviews and box office receipts are anything to go by, Alan Parker’s latest film, set on Death Row, might have wished it could take the long walk itself. Antonio Pasolini flips the switch
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by Andy Murray | Mar 31, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Another Kevin Spacey film, another box-office disaster – you’d think the casting directors would get the idea. This film version of a cult sci-fi novel casts Spacey as an alien trying to return to his home planet. Andy Murray feels ’embarrassed on its behalf’
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by Bob Carroll | Mar 31, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Remakes seem to be all the rage at the moment. Tarkovsky and Douglas Sirk have both been dusted down for a modern audience; now Neil Jordan’s new film reinvents Jean Pierre Melville’s noir classic Bob le Flambeur. Bob Carroll investigates
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by Edward Lamberti | Mar 31, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Alexsandr Sokurov’s new film sets itself a formidable task: to shoot an overview of Russian history on a brand-new digital format in a single take. Edward Lamberti applauds "a fantasy journey through Russian history and culture"
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by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc | Mar 30, 2003 | Book Review
Horror has been a staple of cinematic storytelling since the first reels ran through a camera. Michelle le Blanc and Colin Odell enjoy a new book which examines the development of body horror as a genre in its own right
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by Oliver Berry | Mar 25, 2003 | Feature Item
A complete roundup of all the winners and losers from the 75th Academy Awards
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by Antonio Pasolini | Mar 23, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Four years after Rosetta won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the Dardennes brothers have returned with this minimalist thriller, set in the unlikely environs of a lumberyard. Antonio Pasolini finds out how it goes against the grain
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by Tom Dawson | Mar 23, 2003 | Interview
Tom Dawson meets Belgium’s answer to the Coen brothers to discuss their new film, Le Fils, along with symbolism, Olivier Gourmet’s glasses, and why their lead character had to be a carpenter rather than a cook
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by Paul Clarke | Mar 23, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Human ten-pin bowling, trampolining into ceiling fans and off-road tattooing – it could only be the big-screen version of MTV’s Jackass. Paul Clarke can’t help but laugh at the slapstick antics of Johnny Knoxville and crew
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by Richard Armstrong | Mar 23, 2003 | Book Review
Cineaste was one of the first (and only) magazines to specifically address political issues in cinema. Richard Armstrong looks back over a collection of interviews from the magazine’s last twenty years
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by Tim Smedley | Mar 23, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Despite a thriving home-grown film industry, Norwegian movies are seldom seen on British screens. Tim Smedley looks at one of the few: a "moving and uplifting" comedy about two social misfits, already slated for a remake by Kevin Spacey. Next st
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by Hannah Patterson | Mar 18, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Joe Maggio’s ultra low-budget debut follows three down-and-outs across the mean streets of New York, and the film has drawn some impressive praise for its young director. Hannah Patterson enjoys a ‘cramped, claustrophobic’ drama with echoes of Loach and C
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by Thessa Mooij | Mar 17, 2003 | Feature Item
Theresa Mooij sends kamera.co.uk an exclusive report from New York’s premier festival of avant-garde and offbeat cinema, now in its tenth year
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by John Atkinson | Mar 17, 2003 | Book Review
The 1970s produced some of the most memorable moments in modern American cinema, and launched the careers of some of its great filmmakers. John Atkinson examines ‘a fine and potentially important book’ which profiles the key films and directors of the per
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by Bob Carroll | Mar 17, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Spike Jonze’s follow-up to the brilliant Being John Malkovich has been much heralded by critics and filmgoers alike. Bob Carroll enjoys another ‘ingenious and inventive’ tale from the peculiar mind of Charlie Kaufman
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by Andy Murray | Mar 15, 2003 | Film and DVD Review
Andy Murray looks back over the rollercoaster career of Robert Evans, the maverick producer behind Chinatown and Marathon Man, but finds the film version of his life
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by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc | Mar 14, 2003 | Book Review
Women directors on Hollywood’s A-list are a rare breed indeed, which makes Katheryn Bigelow’s success worthy of closer examination. Michelle Blanc and Colin Odell review a ‘welcome study of…one of Hollywood’s most under-appreciated directors’
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by Edward Lamberti | Mar 11, 2003 | Feature Item
The award season gets ever longer, but there is still only one that really matters and it’s nearly upon us. Edward Lamberti, an Oscars fan, feels his enthusiasm waning when surveying this year’s nominations
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by Ian Haydn-Smith | Mar 11, 2003 | Book Review
One of Powell and Pressburger’s less well-known films, I Know Where I’m Going! is well worth getting to know, as is a new book about the film, writes Ian Haydn Smith
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