Les Rallizes Denudes

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Reissue Of The Week: Les Rallizes Denudes’ CITTA 93

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

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Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

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A Quietus Interview

Makoto Kubota Of Les Rallizes Dénudés Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks exclusively with the Les Rallizes Dénudés bass player about the death of enigmatic frontman Takashi Mizutani, and what this means for the band's legacy. With special thanks to Uncle Music

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Baker's Dozen

Let It Happen: Paddy Shine’s Baker’s Dozen

Paddy Shine is one of the most relentless instigators in the underground, both as part of Gnod and in myriad other projects. Ahead of the release of the debut album by his weird folk group Moundabout alongside Phil Masterson on Rocket this summer, he guides Harry Sword through 13 vital slabs

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Les Rallizes Dénudés’ Three Albums To Be Reissued

The Japanese band's records will be made available with newly remastered audio

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Footage At The Borderlands: Horror Writer Adam Nevill’s Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

With his new novel 'Lost Girl' out now, horror author Adam Nevill recommends his favourite recent horror films to Sean Kitching. You are going to want to work through this list.

Film

‘Ave A Go If You Think You’re Dekkard Enough: Blade Runner 2049 Reviewed

Dennis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece is in cinemas now, Mat Colegate takes a look for The Quietus

Film

All Loud on the Eastern Front: Peckinpah’s Cross of Iron Revisited

Optimum have granted Sam Peckinpah’s Eastern Front opus Cross of Iron a long overdue HD facelift. Andrew Stimpson examines this overlooked masterpiece from the troubled and controversial rabble-rouser.

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A French Film And Proud: Gaspar Noé Reaches Climax

The new new film by Gaspar Noé calls itself a "French film and proud". But what does that mean?

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Dangerous Liaisons: The Legacy Of ‘Dressed To Kill’ At 40

Brian De Palma's erotic thriller Dressed To Kill shocked and entertained in 1980, but its legacy 40 years later feels knotty, one of dangerous influence and still alluring appeal. Steve Erickson investigates

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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

The Master’s Amusement Park: The Up And Down Cinema Of Bong Joon-ho

To mark the release of the historic Parasite, it seems fitting to track the physical levels of Korean master Bong Joon-ho's cinema, from Memories of Murder to Snowpiercer, finds Joel Whitaker

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Reviews 4

Reissue Of The Week: Les Rallizes Denudes’ CITTA 93

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Articles 1

Makoto Kubota Of Les Rallizes Dénudés Interviewed

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Let It Happen: Paddy Shine’s Baker’s Dozen

News 1

Les Rallizes Dénudés’ Three Albums To Be Reissued

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