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Thursday, March 12, 2026

"I always have a very strong feeling of what I don't want my films to be, but it's sometimes a little bit mysterious what I want them to be." - An Interview with Hlynur Pálmason.

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Time is of the essence in Hlynur Pálmason’s films. For his extraordinary epic Godland (2022), the director spent two years photographing the...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Frederick Wiseman Obituary

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Stretching from 1967 to 2023, Frederick Wiseman’s filmmaking career was a model of consistency. From the unprepossessing titles onwards, Wis...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Saipan Review

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  For Irish football fans of a certain age, the phrase “You can stick it up your bollocks” is etched in our collective memory. This was capt...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Essay on Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento

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Written for the now-discontinued Eureka blu-ray edition in 2016. In August 1974, Gideon Bachmann arrived in Italy to report on the producti...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Best Films of 2025

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25 – Here (Robert Zemeckis) Here arrived in UK cinemas on a wave of hostile reviews, most of which struck me as very wide of the mark once I...
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