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Akira Kurosawa As a dozen of the Japanese master's greatest films go on a tour of the UK's arthouses and video shops, here's a look back at his life and work. See, I've not just been sitting around for the last two months! (Well, I have, but you know what I mean.) Updated 15/03/2002
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American Independence They've got big stars, big directors, but no UK distribution: so half a dozen low-budget American indie movies are touring the country between March and May 1999, and they're coming soon to an arthouse near you. Updated 24/03/1999
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Hana-Bi Back with another one of those block rockin' Beats: Takeshi Kitano's latest tragi-comic Yakuza epic finally makes it into British cinemas. Updated 27/07/1998
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Heimat 3 After 16 hours of Heimat in the eighties and 26 hours of Die Zweite Heimat in the nineties, Edgar Reitz wraps up his epic social history of Germany in a comparatively short package of six feature-length movies, lasting a total of eleven hours. And the whole saga's reviewed here (apart from the 26 hours in the middle). Updated 12/05/2005
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Heroic Grace So. National Film Theatre. You think your kung fu season's pretty good. But still. You're going to be reviewed today. Ah ha ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha ha. (To be honest, that doesn't really make sense unless you download this 6.5Mb Acrobat file and read the footnotes on page 5.) Updated 09/03/2004
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Kill Bill "There are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard." With Volume 1 of Quentin Tarantino's roaring rampage of revenge now out on video (in two different versions, no less), and Volume 2 in movie theatres worldwide, it's probably time we had a look at what those consequences are. Updated 16/05/2004
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The 72nd Academy Awards The stars, the glamour, the dawning realisation that Barry Norman can't do live TV to save his life: a look at Hollywood's annual orgy of self-congratulation from the comfort of a London sofa. Updated 27/03/2000
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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace No hype, no overkill, no over-zealous fan worship: simply the calm, balanced opinions of a casual viewer who just happened to be flying over to New York on the film's opening weekend. Honestly. Updated 23/05/1999
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Tartan Asia Extreme Festival American cinema's dead, European cinema isn't much better: people in the know have been looking to South-East Asia to provide us with surprising movies. As have Tartan, who've released seven top flicks from South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan into British cinemas. Hooray for them. Updated 01/08/2003 |
Wild Japan As Japanese genre cinema picks up a new lease of life on the video racks of our nation, here's a useful touring festival of cult classics from the sixties and seventies. It visited various arthouses in the UK and Ireland between February and April 2005: this is what I thought of the films I saw when it hit London. Updated 15/03/2005 |
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