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Film of the week: Museum Hours
A security guard’s meditations at Vienna’s Museum of Art History, and his relationship with a lonely American visitor, open up into speculations on art, the city, love and life in the hands of Jem Cohen, lyrical poet of the overlooked, says Isabel Stevens.
Friday 6 September 2013 -
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Film of the week: The Stuart Hall Project
Cultural critic and New Left fountainhead Stuart Hall meets the mood music of Miles Davis and the reflective screen poetry of John Akomfrah in this multifaceted portrait of a thinker and his times, writes Ashley Clark.
Thursday 5 September 2013 -
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Low film of the week: Pain & Gain
As Michael Bay brings his signature brand of lumpen delirium to a true-crime story from the crassly acquisitive late 1990s, Nick Pinkerton wonders if it’s a mistake to credit him with irony.
Friday 30 August 2013 -
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High film of the week: Upstream Color
Shane Carruth, American cinema’s most sophisticated mad scientist, returns with another slice of breathtaking inscrutability. Michael Atkinson goes boldly in.
Friday 30 August 2013 -
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Film of the week: What Maisie Knew
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s modernising of Henry James’ child’s-eye divorce study swaps the master’s scalpel for a spoonful of sugar – but does give Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan room to humanise their monstrous parents, says Philip Horne.
Friday 23 August 2013 -
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Caught between old and new mores, a borrowed wife learns the blues in this snapshot of repressive hypocrisy in Austria’s Turkish enclave, writes Philip Kemp.
Friday 16 August 2013 -
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Echoes – of the past and the lost, of people and their stories – seep into this richly resonant portrait of a sound recordist documenting west Ireland’s unpeopled landscapes. Mark Sinker fills in the gaps.
Friday 9 August 2013 -
Film of the week: Paradise: Hope
Real-life teenage ‘diet camp’ kids get somewhat happy in this surprisingly conciliatory finale to Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, says Michael Brooke.
Friday 2 August 2013
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