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Sing Sing Sing
スウィングガールズ
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On Lords of Chaos, The Rise of Global Fascism, Dating the Human Equivalent of Nihilist Arby’s, and Refusal to Discuss Mental Health
Content Warning: This essay brings up sexual violence and suicide ideation at various points. By Rachel Presser.
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The British Royals Have Always Been Scum
Despite generations of imperial murder, torture, rape, and plunder, the British ruling class still gets the brown-nose treatment in historical depictions. Not so in The Favourite, where the royals are shown as the disgusting creatures they were and still are. By Eileen Jones.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
William Wyler
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Here come the bombs
The making of Threads, the nuclear war film that shocked a generation. By Jude Rogers.
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Rainy Day
Brownie McGhee
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One Tin Soldier
The Original Caste
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Cinematic Airs
A whiff of success. By Christopher Turner.
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Patron Saints Of Imperfection: On Guillermo Del Toro’s Love Of Monsters
A look at the spiritual side of del Toro. By Priscilla Page.
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How 1920s British spy agency files reveal a proto-Cold War rife with intrigue
An expert on Russia discovered that bureaucrats and spies secretly gathered to watch Soviet movies. By Brian Bethune.
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‘Dark Star’ and Staring into the Cosmic Abyss
Most of us fortunate enough to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in a theater when it was released never dreamed it would spawn a strange ‘twin.’ By Paul Gilster.
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Topaze (1933)
Selznick International
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Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood’s tyrants by watching their films?
Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey … as the list of harassment cases in Hollywood grows, can we any longer separate cinema from the morality of its makers? By Xan Brooks.
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From Basquiat to Pollock: Seven Seminal Artist Biopics
These compelling portraits of artistic genius are integral viewing for all art and film lovers. By Daisy Woodward.
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$40,000-a-Night Escorts: Secrets of the Cannes Call Girls
A businessman – and Gadhafi associate – who was convicted in a 2007 prostitution ring bust reveals all the dirty secrets of how models (and even some Hollywood actresses) swarm the hotels and yacht parties during the fest: says one escort, it’s “the biggest payday of the year.” By Dana Kennedy. (May 17, 2013)
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Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain
From Kill List to Blood on Satan’s Claw, celebrate May Day with a journey into the dark heart of the English countryside. By Michael Newton.
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The Intrusion Artist
The director Robert Bresson used his camera to observe humans so nakedly that the resulting films can seem cruel. Yet Bresson’s gamble was to turn these acts of theft and violation into a way of conferring power on the models themselves. By Max Nelson.
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Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”
A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation. By Guillermo Navarro.
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The Handmaiden review – outrageous thriller drenched with eroticism
Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, relocated to 1930s Korea, is an erotic triumph – with a whiplash twist. By Peter Bradshaw.
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Cairo Without End
In his quiet film In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said brilliantly captures a struggle I’ve had for years: how to pin down what it is about Cairo that leaves us feeling as if we exist in a no man’s land, somewhere between past and present, constantly searching, never quite there. By Yasmine El Rashidi.
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