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Film Review: ‘Obvious Child’
★★★★☆ The label of ‘abortion rom-com’ doesn’t necessarily scream box office success. However, director Gillian Robespierre doesn’t care what you think. Her debut feature, Obvious Child (2014), aims to confront life’s uncomfortable truths. From the moment Donna (Jenny Slate) begins her stand-up routine with an anecdote about vaginal discharge, you know you’re in for something…
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DVD Review: ‘Nosferatu’
★★★★★ The jewel in the crown of the BFI’s ongoing Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film season, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu is restored and rereleased this week thanks to Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label. One of silent cinema’s most widely celebrated offerings, A Symphony of Horror remains an eerily expressionist nightmare of cultural anxiety…
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DVD Review: ‘From Up on Poppy Hill’
★★★☆☆ Directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of Studio Ghibli figurehead Hayao Miyazaki, From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) is a delightful coming-of-age drama, made in a similar vein to 1995’s Whisper of the Heart. A classic tale of boy meets girl set in 1960s Japan, Umi (Masami Nagasawa) and Shun (Junichi Okada) first cross paths when…
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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Naked Island’
★★★★☆ Kaneto Shindô’s Naked Island (Hadaka no shima, 1960) receives the Blu-ray treatment this week thanks to the UK’s foremost purveyors of highly acclaimed filmic artefacts – Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label. Presenting the intolerably difficult life of a peninsula-dwelling family, Naked Island is a cinematic ode to life separated from civilisation and a masterfully…
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Film Review: ‘Searching for Sugar Man’
★★★★☆ Malik Bendjelloul’s strikingly assured debut Searching for Sugar Man (2012) is a fascinating documentary founded on the remarkable true story of a seemingly unsuccessful musician who unknowingly – to both himself and his producers – became a national sensation on the other side of the world. It’s a story so unbelievable that it remains…
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DVD Review: ‘Park Row’
★★★★☆ After the recent, turbulent News of the World scandal, the ethics and role of print media within a society addicted to social networking has become a major talking point. In keeping with this cultural fixation with the Great British tabloid press, the Masters of Cinema label have decided to re-release Samuel Fuller’s Park Row…
