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Johan Grimonprez’s mock docudrama is an intriguing fusion of documentary and narrative drama. It merges live action and 50s stock footage to tell the fictitious account of how Alfred Hitchcock met his double while filming […]
If you’ll forgive me I’m going to throw caution to the wind and begin on a wild generalisation. These days [I know, but stay with me] films are not what they used to be. Now […]
Dashing into those strange but wonderfully comforting concrete arms of the Barbican Centre from the cold rain, I soon discovered that most of the guests at Barbican Centre on this drizzly December evening were in […]
Andrew Haigh’s Weekend is a wonderfully intimate and utterly engaging film, gently provocative whilst maintaining a very genuine heart. It follows 48 hours in the life of Russell, during which he drunkenly meets and sleeps […]