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In Praise Of

The radical DIY miracle of Marble Ass

by Fedor Tot

Born out of Bel­grade’s under­ground scene in 1995, Želimir Žil­nik’s cel­e­bra­tion of a tight-knit com­mu­ni­ty of sex work­ers has a par­tic­u­lar pow­er in today’s increas­ing­ly divid­ed society.
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Acting Up

Off the Deep End: Fred Halsted’s Slippery Sadism

by Alexander Mooney

Half a cen­tu­ry on, the man behind Sex­tool and LA Plays Itself remains a pio­neer­ing, provoca­tive fig­ure of films that strad­dle the line between pornog­ra­phy and art.
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Lost in Translation: The unsung art of subtitling

by Madeleine Storer

The ​“one-inch bar­ri­er” that Bong Joon Ho spoke of in 2019 still exists – and it’s not always audi­ences who are to blame for sub­ti­tles being inaccessible.
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Festivals

Tornado – first-look review

by David Jenkins

John ​“Slow West” Maclean returns with a Samu­rai-inspired heist thriller set in the Eng­lish wilds – the eccen­tric results are mixed.
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Not Movies

Heightened Drama: Inside the operatic adaptation of Festen

by Blake Simons

Thomas Vin­ter­berg’s 1998 dra­ma finds its way to the Roy­al Opera House cour­tesy of an elab­o­rate new reimag­in­ing – but how on earth do you adapt a Dogme 95 film into an opera?
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Not Movies

How Mouthwashing continues Alien’s condemnation of worker exploitation

by Alex Masse

Tak­ing cues from Rid­ley Scot­t’s jug­ger­naut, Mouth­wash­ing is a fas­ci­nat­ing game about work­er exploita­tion and the vio­lence of the patriarchy.
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Not Movies

Has WWE become another cog in the Netflix machine?

by Sam Moore

As WWE enters its Net­flix Era, there’s an awful lot of ​“brand syn­er­gy” – and it’s becom­ing a distraction.
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Long Read

This city is our playground: A drive-by of Grand Theft Auto machinima

by Olivia Popp

Grand Theft Ham­let might be the high­est pro­file film made inside Rock­star’s flag­ship fran­chise, but it’s cer­tain­ly not the first – join us on a cruise through San Andreas Cinema.
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Making Sense of Life Without Her: On Chantal Akerman

by Esmé Holden

A reflec­tion on try­ing to make sense of the sense­less, through the work of a Bel­gian master.
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In Praise Of

Yi Yi, or Y2K

by Mick Gaw

Edward Yang’s 2000 mas­ter­piece about a mid­dle-class fam­i­ly in Taipei might be the defin­ing film of the millennium.