Zero Dark Thirty
At the BAFTAS last week, Stephen Fry confessed of having certain misgivings about seeing a film whose previous 29 instalments he had missed.
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The French New Wave
The rash of young filmmakers that mushroomed across the French film scene in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s is often held responsible for the excesses that followed, culminating in pop music videos in the ‘90s, the increase in abstract films with no narratives or little sense, the overindulgence of directors and perhaps worse of…
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James Bond
The name “James Bond” does not immediately conjure visions of incompetence, physical lethargy and psychological frailty in the average filmgoer’s mind.
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Film Critics…An endangered species
Popcorn, soda, the smell of butter in the air, the clink of ice cubes in drinks, aisle seats, air conditioning on hot summer days, privacy with one’s lover, escape from school… The cinema will always mean different things to different people. But for the film critic, who is by definition a cinephile, the perpetual nighttime…
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