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King Crimson awaits in perpetual potentiality. All one has to do, according to Bill Rieflin, is play the right note at the right time. If this makes being in the band sound easy, allow me to recount a short anecdote. Bill Bruford, who…

One of the difficulties in talking about gun violence in the United States is the enormity of the problem. It must strike anyone outside of the US as particularly alien. Awareness flares when mass shooters strike like clockwork, though…

Glorious can be classed under H.P. Lovcraft, playing out as a hangover from his fictional city R’Lyeh. Over a generally brisk 80 minutes, director Rebekah McKendry carves out an intermittently enjoyable cosmic horror comedy. Most of the…

This is GWAR is a straightforward rock doc. After an introductory section detailing the genesis of the titular art collective cum metal band, the filmmakers take us through a chronological survey of the group’s history. We meet the…

Blade Runner is the best designed and most meditative American science fiction film this side of 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, this statement is not without qualification forty years after its initial release. For my purposes here, I may…

Emmanuèlle (Sophie Marceau), having received an urgent phone call, is on her way out of her building before realising she isn’t wearing her contacts. Her father, André (André Dussollier), we soon learn, has had a stroke. When Emmanuèlle…

Ignoring the final twenty minutes, Night’s End delivers an hour of solid frights. I suggest ignorance because the closing scenes may as well have been glued on from a separate, entirely awful picture. It loses the plot right about…

In Front of Your Face is Hong Sang-soo’s 26th feature. He is deliriously prolific and equally lauded. In each of the last three years alone, he has been awarded a Silver Bear at Berlin. Last year, a koreanscreen.com poll of 158 critics…

Eraserhead remains David Lynch’s supreme cinematic achievement. Endlessly enigmatic, his debut feature exhibits the thematic and technical concerns that would come to shape each of his subsequent projects. Those looking for a puzzle to…

Claire Denis’ latest film will be presented as Fire. The actual title, according to the filmmaker, is taken from the name of the Tindersticks track that plays over the end credits: 'Both Sides of the Blade'. This is an intriguing title and…