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Behead The Traitor Doherty! Notions Of Britishness In The Music Of The 00s
The 00s have been a decade dominated by American indie imperialism. Much of the blame can be laid at the door of Britpop, but there are treasures from our own shores that have been cruelly ignored, argues Luke Turner
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Wenderlust: This Must Be The Place Reviewed
A whimsical road movie anchored by Sean Penn's star turn and a David Byrne cameo, Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut suggests that the acclaimed Italian director has, like Wim Wenders before him, entered the dread orbit of U2. Stephen Dalton muses on this cinematic Curse of Bono
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Into The Fire: Rollo Smallcombe On Scoring Clouzot’s Inferno
This weekend The Barbican is presenting a specially re-edited and re-scored presentation of Henri-Georges Clouzot's great lost film The Inferno. We talk to Rollo Smallcombe about the challenges of re-framing one of the great missing movies
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Making The Case For Tearing Down Democratic Systems In ‘Boys State’
On the eve of the most crucial US presidential election of our lifetime, two recent films, Boys State & What The Constitution Means To Me, prove potent to unpack in order to make a case for the dismantling of our current democratic systems. Madeleine Seidel writes on Boys State and What The Constitution Means To Me
