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The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology
British documentary film directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek. It is a sequel to Fiennes’s 2006 documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema. Though the film follows the frameworks of its predecessor, this time the emphasis is on ideology itself. Through psychoanalysis Žižek explores “the mechanisms
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Frances Ha
Woody Allen meets French new wave as Frances (Gerwig) bluffs her way through tough times to follow her dreams. Frances Halladay is a 27-year-old dancer who lives in New York City with her best friend from college, Sophie. Her life is upended when Sophie tells her she plans to relocate from Brooklyn to Tribeca, which
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Bonjour Tristesse
Riveting story, visually stunning – a film that defies categorisation. In a villa on the Riviera a woman comes between a decadent girl and her playboy widowed father – rivalries escalate.
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Searching for Sugarman
Two South Africans, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, seek to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
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The Invisible Woman
A sumptuous biopic of the private life of Charles Dickens, focusing on his loveless marriage and secret affair with a younger woman, Nelly Ternan.
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The Kings of Summer
Three teenage boys reject parental restrictions and build a cabin in the woods for the summer.
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The Selfish Giant
This passionate contemporary fable, which features outstanding performances by its young leads, has echoes of socio-realist classics such as Ken Loach’s Kes. Set in modern Bradford, it charts the progress of two adolescent boys from tough estates who survive day to day scavenging for scrap. It is loosely based on the classic Oscar Wilde fairy
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The Stuart Hall Project
This absorbing documentary pays tribute to the sociologist and pioneer of cultural studies Stuart Hall, who founded the New Left Review and coined the term ‘Thatcherism’. Against a fabulous Miles Davis soundtrack (a different track frames each section), the film charts both his life-story and changes within British society from his arrival in post-war Britain
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Locke
Locke has done what many married men fantasize about doing at some point in their lives, he’s slept with another woman (if only for one night). The woman, now in hospital, giving birth to his child, requires his support and presence, and Ivan aims not to disappoint. Ivan is at a stage in his life
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Nebraska
This bittersweet, tragicomic but unsentimental road movie from a distinguished director and star at the top of their game depicts a crotchety, senile old man and his harassed son’s quest for riches in Lincoln, Nebraska. Panoramic shots in grainy black and white of the American mid-west are accompanied by an elegiac, plaintive soundtrack. Distinguished actor
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