Contributor Anton Bitel

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Discover the film that helped kickstart the found footage phenomenon

by Anton Bitel

Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s 1998 horror mockumentary The Last Broadcast predates The Blair Witch Project.
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Discover this cult Euro crime thriller from Umberto Lenzi

by Anton Bitel

The maverick Italian director’s 1976 film Free Hand for a Tough Cop is now available in the UK for the first time.
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Discover Francis Ford Coppola’s Psycho-inspired directorial debut

by Anton Bitel

The Roger Corman-produced Dementia 13 is much more than a quickie Hitchcock ripoff, as this Director’s Cut proves.
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Love and misery in Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing

by Anton Bitel

The director’s 2002 drama about life on a London housing estate is a film of bleak moments and occasional hope.
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Why Dario Argento’s Deep Red remains a trashy masterpiece

by Anton Bitel

The Italian director’s 1975 giallo classic is being re-released in a newly restored, longer edit with additional scenes.
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Review

Antlers

by Anton Bitel

A horned entity stalks Keri Russell’s school teacher in director Scott Cooper’s allegorical American horror story.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
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Interviews

Denis Villeneuve: ‘I’m obsessed by the idea that humans can evolve’

by Anton Bitel

Quebec’s modernist sci-fi maestro talks big screens and small gestures, and how he brought the arid world of Arrakis to life.
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Discover the fear and disillusionment of this cabin fever horror

by Anton Bitel

Toshiaki Toyoda’s Monsters Club sees a Unabomber-like character wage a private war from a remote cabin in the woods.
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Discover the monstrous spectacle of this meta exploitation movie

by Anton Bitel

Marco Ferreri’s controversial The Ape Woman is a deeply cynical portrayal of masculinity bestialised and femininity reified.
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Why Johnny Guitar remains a superior subversive western

by Anton Bitel

With its progressive gender politics and liberal undertow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.

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