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Fay Grim

2nd Jun 08
Format: Cinema
Mood: Smarts

Ever found yourself wondering, "If only there was a film that combined my passion for vintage pornography, international espionage and foxy European ladies with low blood sugar"? The wait is over: Fay Grim is here.

With camera angles thrown constantly askew, performances from a cache of hardcore art darlings (Parker Posey, Elina Löwensohn, Saffron Burrows), and his signature dialogue style as electric as ever, Fay Grim smacks of Hal Hartley's auteurist vision.

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Michelangelo Antonioni Retrospective

21st May 08
Format: Festival
Mood: Nostalgic

When Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died within a week of each other almost a year ago, it felt like a failed Punk'd sketch: some ghoulish, almighty Ashton had played a joke on European art cinema in the poorest of taste. If anything, it meant the work of two distinct directors suddenly merged in the popular consciousness into a single, generic art-monster: the dreaded Bergmioni.

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