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The Passionate Christ
By Philip Concannon Martin Scorsese has famously described cinema as simply being “a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out,” but when The Last Temptation of Christ was released in 1988, very few...
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London 2012 – the Olympic Shorts
by Philip Concannon The Swimmer The occasion of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games taking place in London is not just a sporting event, but also a cultural one. The London 2012 Festival will run...
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Lost in the Red Desert
Philip Concannon reassesses Antonioni’s first full-colour masterpiece When people think of Michelangelo Antonioni now, they think (although he was active as a filmmaker from 1942) of the radically...
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“It’s (almost) All True!”– Orson Welles’ F For Fake
by Philip Concannon When he was four years old, Orson Welles’ mother gave him the gift of a magic set, and the precocious boy quickly learned to delight adults with his confident performances. Later,...
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The Eyes Have It
by Philip Concannon Dr Mabuse: The Gambler When Fritz Lang’s Dr Mabuse: The Gambler was released in 1922, one promotional poster carried the question “Who is Dr Mabuse?” alongside pictures of six very...
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Under the Skin of The Singing Detective
by Philip Concannon It is often said that we are currently living through a golden age of television, but for all of our contemporary small screen achievements has anything been created in this period...
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Tanner 88
On the 25th anniversary of its debut on HBO, Phil Concannon looks back at Tanner 88. While campaigning in New Hampshire ahead of the 1988 primary, Republican Presidential hopeful Bob Dole ran into an...
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The Hothouse
By Phil Concannon Simon Russell Beale and John Simm in The Hothouse. Harold Pinter wrote The Hothouse in 1958. He then discarded the play and it remained out of sight for over two decades, before...
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One Day in Paradise
by Philip Concannon Love Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith opens with a scene of self-flagellation, and anyone familiar with this Austrian director might be justified in suggesting that watching three of...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Your next box set? Philip Concannon spends a weekend with Fassbinder’s epic television masterpiece. In Robert Katz’s biography Love Is Colder Than Death, Michael Fengler recalls seeing the young Rainer...
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MostlyFilm’s Preview of 2014 – Part 2
The hot MostlyFilm on 2014 action continues as Philip Concannon looks ahead to his most anticipated films of the year. Ed Balls and Nick Clegg, reconciled at last. Every December, as people go through...
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There’s a War on… Somewhere
Ace in the Hole is reissued on Bluray today by Masters of Cinema. Philip Concannon’s look back at Billy Wilder’s cynical masterpiece is illustrated by behind-the-scenes photographs. Kirk Douglas and...
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The Piano
Philip Concannon revisits the 1993 Palme D’Or Winner, now out on Blu-ray, in the year its director heads the Cannes jury. The first image we see in The Piano is a close-up of Holly Hunter’s fingers as...
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Barney and Friends
Phil Concannon watches Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle and River of Fundament. Read on if you dare. Cremaster 4 Norman Mailer may have won the Pulitzer Prize and unanimous critical acclaim for The...
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Too Late Blues
Philip Concannon watches the new blu-ray of this early picture from John Cassavetes. When Shadows was released in 1959, it caused a sensation. Shot in 16mm on the streets of New York with a skeleton...
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Victim
Philip Concannon revisits Basil Dearden’s British classic of repression and shame, on the occasion of its Blu-ray debut as part of Network’s series “the British Film”. Victim begins as a mystery, and...
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Night Moves
Phil Concannon has mixed feelings about Kelly Reichhardt’s latest offering. Kelly Reichardt’s last film Meek’s Cutoff was a picture about a group of people lost in the wilderness, wandering in circles...
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Philip Concannon watches as Louise Brooks loses her innocence. In 1929 – two years into cinema’s sound era – the days of silent filmmaking were numbered, but as the studios raced to capitalise on the...
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Gregory’s Boys
Philip Concannon lets himself get taken for a ride by Linda Fiorentino, as he rewatches The Last Seduction. It doesn’t take long for The Last Seduction to give us a sense of the kind of person Bridget...
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A Fuller Life
Philip Concannon looks for the real Sam Fuller in a new documentary about the director. Before he had ever stepped behind a camera, Samuel Fuller had led a life that was worthy of being documented. A...
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