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Recommended | Wednesday, 18 August 2010 Written by Nathan Francis
Recommended: Bad Boy Bubby (Dir. Rolf De Heer, 1993)
I recorded Bad Boy Bubby by fortunate mistake, when a late film warranted leaving the machine operating while I crept to bed. When I awoke there was a fresh nightmare waiting for me, a truly unique cinematic experience which had an immediate and lasting effect.
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Features | Monday, 16 August 2010 Written by Martin Zeller-Jacques
Lost Classic: Destry Rides Again (Dir. George Marshall, 1939)
For film fans, Westerns are a serious business. In the Fifties, directors like Zinneman, Hawks and Mann garnered critical praise for their psychological realism and deconstruction of the genre. In the Sixties and Seventies, Peckinpah and Leone mixed stylized violence with mournful elegies in films which lamented the end of the frontier.
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Recommended | Thursday, 12 August 2010 Written by John Berra
Recommended: Hotel (Jessica Hausner, 2004)
In the age of commercial chains and franchise operations, most hotels are anonymous environments that would seem to offer little in the way of inspiration for filmmakers looking for an appropriate location to stage an exercise in unease.
Features | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 Written by Neil Mitchell
Spotlight: On the Road Around the World
Whilst the 'road movie' most readily conjures up images of the ever changing social and physical landscape of America, from Easy Rider to Little Miss Sunshine, it is by no means limited to one nation's collective experiences. All around the World, from Australia to Scandinavia and all places in between, the genre has attracted all manner of directors, whose work ranges from exploitation to art house, and all manner of narrative subjects. Here are a cross-section of road movies, drawn from all eras, which display unique visions of the emotional and physical journeys that define the genre.
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