Author: Michael Pattison
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AV Festival: Stalker
Stalker (1979), adapted by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky from their own 1971 novel, Roadside Picnic, was…
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AV Festival: Double Tide
When Sharon Lockhart couldn’t be present for the AV Festival 2012’s screening of her film…
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AV Festival: Nightfall
With the swell in recent years of visual artists looking to cinema as an outlet…
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AV Festival 2012: The Art of Time
Opening with Rex Harrison’s lament in Joseph Mankiewicz’s The Honey Pot (1967) that the overriding…
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AV Festival 2012 – As Slow As Possible: 1st-31st March
AV Festival, the theme-inspired leading international festival of contemporary art, technology, music and film, returns…
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Review
Within the first few shots of the latest Mission: Impossible film, IMF agent Trevor Hanaway…
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Top Ten Films of 2011: Staff Picks
As any year comes to an end, the two chief tasks facing a film critic…
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The Deep Blue Sea Review
Besides an early aside involving an impossibly insensitive mother-in-law, there are few laughs in Terence…
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale DVD Review
Directed by Jalmari Helander, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is several things at once. It…
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The Conversation DVD Review
Having written its screenplay years earlier, Francis Ford Coppola was able to secure funding for The…