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Mostly Shorts
An occasional series in which Mostly Film looks at the best short films being distributed on the web A scene from the 2013 Best Short Film Oscar-winner ‘Inocente’ MostlyFilm likes big. MostlyFilm likes...
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Dismay of the Locust
James Deen! Lindsay Lohan! Bret Easton Ellis! Paul Schrader! Yes, it’s The Canyons. What, wonders Niall Anderson, could possibly go wrong? The Canyons begins with scenes of boarded-up cinemas in...
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I am the one who knock-offs
Niall Anderson cashes in on Breaking Bad, because, well, who isn’t? We’ve had cool TV shows before. We’ve had cool TV shows getting called the best of all time. We have had cool, best-of-all-time TV...
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District 10
Niall Anderson sees Matt Damon scowl his way through Elysium Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 was a punky man-in-jeopardy sci fi thing, with good effects and good performances. It had a hundred small ideas...
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A Science Fiction of the Past
Federico Fellini’s Satyricon gets a rare public screening in London next week. Niall Anderson welcomes it back. Lights! Minotaur! Action! Little dates faster than cinematic representations of the...
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Mostly Shorts 2
The return of an occasional series in which Mostly Film looks at the best short films on the web MostlyFilm likes big. MostlyFilm likes small. And given that we’re rather small ourselves, we like to...
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Mostly Shorts 3
It’s that time of year again: the time when you go to see a film and are slightly baffled by the sudden appearance of a short extra thing, out of nowhere, before the main feature. The Virgin Media...
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The Worst of All Possible Worlds
The internet is ruining us, discovers Niall Anderson. Also, Jonathan Franzen. Jonathan Franzen is thinking, so you don’t have to. Last Saturday, The Guardian published a lengthy essay by Jonathan...
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Nebbish Say Nebbish Again
Woody Allen takes on the financial crisis? Niall Anderson withdraws his savings. He’ll take your money! RUN! An idea for Woody Allen’s next film. An experienced and somewhat notorious director turns up...
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Faking Bad
Yes, it was great, but what did Breaking Bad actually mean? Niall Anderson has SPOILERS a-plenty. A couple of weeks ago, this blog published a bit of minor snark about the sudden omnipresence of...
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Portrait in Negative
Rithy Panh’s Khmer Rouge documentary, a prize winner at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is released today, and reviewed by Niall Anderson. Rithy Panh was four when the Khmer Rouge began its guerrilla...
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Her
For St Valentine’s Day, Niall Anderson reviews Spike Jonze’s, uh-heh, “singular” love story. Something extraordinary happens at the end of Her. If it happened in real life, it would be a world-altering...
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See Rome, And Live!
Niall Anderson sees a new restoration of Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 classic, Rome: Open City When American forces liberated Rome in 1944, they also intended to liberate Italian culture from the traces...
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Tuck In!
Niall Anderson takes delivery of foodie Indian romcom The Lunchbox Made in India but with funding from everywhere from Germany to the US, Ritesh Batra’s warm romance The Lunchbox can almost be read as...
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Godzilla
The latest version of Godzilla is in cinemas this week. Niall Anderson gazes into the abyss. Shouting nerds! Fleeing civilians! Military impotence! Collapsing buildings! A solitary man with a plan!...
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Jacques In A Box
Niall Anderson watches the complete work of Jacques Tati, a man for whom the ridiculous and the sublime were indistinguishable Ceci n’est pas un auteur Somebody clearly thinks that now is the time for...
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Nothing to declare
Niall Anderson watches Al Pacino deconstruct Oscar Wilde’s most difficult play, and himself In John Lahr’s recent New Yorker profile, Al Pacino comes across as highly intelligent, funny and driven,...
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Consumed
Niall Anderson reads the first novel by a cinematic master When David Cronenberg released his larky virtual reality thriller eXistenZ in 1999, the critical praise it received doubled as a sigh of...
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Cockblockin’ Beats!
Niall Anderson attempts to get his groove on to Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash “There’s a group of guys that asked me to play. They play gigs for money, pops,” says Sal Mineo meekly in The Gene Krupa Story...
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Too Many Kooks …
Niall Anderson goes the distance with Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice Above is the last known picture of Thomas Pynchon, taken in the summer of 1965 in California....
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