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Unlikely Intersections: tQ’s Highlights of Skaņu Mežs 2024

Articles 4

A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

Mike Barnes' new book A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s explores the expansive possibilities of the progressive rock scene

A Quietus Interview

Before And After Bandits: Marc Hollander Of Aksak Maboul & Crammed Discs

Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and Crammed Discs talks to Sean Kitching about the consistent thread running through the different chapters of his band, the progress of their forthcoming fourth album, Rock In Opposition and cultural cross-pollination

A Quietus Interview

Deep Listening: Bérangère Maximin Interviewed

Cindy Stern offers her unique insights into - and talks to - the incomparable electroacoustic composer Bérangère Maximin

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After The Deluge: Henry Cow’s Unrest Revisited

Sean Kitching speaks to Chris Cutler for a very personal appreciation of Henry Cow's Unrest album and has some recommendations to make for further listening

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Baker's Dozen

F**king Hell! It’s Dinos Chapman’s Favourite Albums!

As he releases his first album Luftbobler, Dinos Chapman guides Luke Turner through his favourite 13 albums, from Ligeti to Bad Seeds, Talking Heads, Aphex and Basic Channel

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There’s Something About Stanley: Kubrick’s Strange Science Of Obsession

Jasun Horsley examines the impulses that drive Kubrick's formidable oeuvre and asks what it all means to his legion of obsessive fans

Film

Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit

As Steven Soderbergh and Baz Luhrmann consider their retirement from feature films, Tristan Bath argues that it's time for a few veteran Hollywood directors to be put out to pasture

Film

Goose Fare: Only God Forgives Reviewed

Patrick Smith picks a fight with Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's follow up to the acclaimed Drive

Film

Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

Film

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

Film

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

Film

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

Film

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

Film

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

Film

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

Film

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Reviews 1

Unlikely Intersections: tQ’s Highlights of Skaņu Mežs 2024

Articles 4

A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

Before And After Bandits: Marc Hollander Of Aksak Maboul & Crammed Discs

Deep Listening: Bérangère Maximin Interviewed

After The Deluge: Henry Cow’s Unrest Revisited

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

F**king Hell! It’s Dinos Chapman’s Favourite Albums!

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Alan Wilder Of Recoil & Depeche Mode’s 13 Favourite LPs

Another Wardrobe In My Head: Karl Hyde’s Favourite Albums

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Trace The Bloodline: Jerry Cantrell Of Alice In Chains’ Favourite Albums

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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

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Moviedrone: The Year’s Finest Film Soundtracks

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Feminist Porn And The Impossible Subject

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Raging Monster Movie Party: Akira 30 Years On

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