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Fringe! Queer Art &Film Fest: Out in the Night (Blair Dorosh-Walther, 2014)

November 24, 2014

The four women who all served prison-time aplenty Quite possibly the jewel in this Festival’s crown, Blair Dorosh-Walther’s tough and compassionate documentary chronicles the experiences of four black lesbia...

Fringe! Queer Art & Film Fest: Queer Sci-fi II

Arjun Sajip

November 24, 2014

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The mysterious pink-robed men This assortment of films is a very mixed bag. We kick off with a prelude that features as its main aural hook an unprecedentedly catchy gospel version of Incy Wincy Spider. As w...

Fringe! Queer Art & Film Fest: Frenzy: A Riot Decade / There’s A Dyke In The Pit

Arjun Sajip

November 24, 2014

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A still from Jill Reiter’s Super 8-filmed short film Frenzy This collection of short films in Fringe! Queer Art & Film Festival – some in the afternoon, some late in the evening – comprises curiously (un...

Nominations for the Moët British Independent Film Awards 2014 announced

Arjun Sajip

November 3, 2014

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Nominations for the Moët British Independent Film Awards have been announced today by Jared Harris, an actor best known for his role as Lane Pryce in AMC drama Mad Men. Taking place on 7 December, the...

Review: Anime Nere (Black Souls)

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

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Francesco Munzi’s sombre Calabrian gangster film Here is a film that takes an abrupt left-turn in its last 75 seconds, with three brutal yet perversely compassionate slayings – an odd phrase, yet one that enca...

The London Film Festival 2014: The Man in the Orange Jacket

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

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Maxim Lazarev plays the eponymous high-vis-jacket-clad murderer The denouements of horror films are usually their downfall. The genre derives its scares from three sources: the supernatural, the superhuman, ...

The London Film Festival 2014: Catch Me Daddy

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

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Sameena Jabeen Ahmed won the Best Actress award at this year’s London Film Festival The Wolfe brothers’ début is a startling, troubling and fairly nasty film. Refreshingly nasty, in fact: it’s fantastically ta...

The London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

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JK Simmons channels R Lee Ermey as drill-sargeant-cum-orchestra-conductor Terence Fletcher The two central theses of this breathless film are so old-school they’re radical. Great art is often born of abuse. An...

The London Film Festival 2014: Левиафан (Leviathan)

Arjun Sajip

October 24, 2014

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The sad cetacean skeleton that functions as a protean symbol for so much of what is wrong with Russian politics Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ambition certainly befits the title of his latest film. It comes at a fittin...

The London Film Festival 2014: White Bird in a Blizzard

Arjun Sajip

October 24, 2014

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Like the protagonist's room, this film is pockmarked with pop culture references more stylistic than substantial Another London Film Festival movie, another final-reel twist – and it has begun to feel like t...

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