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  • I Am Love

    I Am Love

    8th April 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this


    Very rarely a film will break out from the fringes of the medium, from the rarified world of cineaste festivals and art house screenings into a broader mainstream consciousness and, through a series of mesmeric flourishes, transcendent jolts, diaphanously nuanced performances or the sheer scope of its artistic ambition will reaffirm the power of cinema to conjure magnificent and unique acts of arousal and awakening. As 2009 tipped into 2010...

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  • Top 10 films of 2009

    Top 10 films of 2009

    11th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    What’s in a list? Probably little more than an opportunity to show off, indulge in a some lazy cultural showboating and maybe even a chance to stir up a dash of barroom provocation. Perfect. So, in no particular order, here is my attempt to do just that. Any disagreements, disputes, outraged contempt, please feel free to comment.....

    1.       The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

    Haneke’s latest masterpiece. Beautifully scripted, shot and acted it...

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  • Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon: Disturbing, mesmerising and wonderful

    Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon: Disturbing, mesmerising and wonderful

    30th November 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon is the latest film from a ferociously gifted and no less provocative filmmaker at the very height of his considerable powers. Troubling, beautiful, unerringly calm yet intensely confrontational it is a film of such towering authority and icy detachment that it might go down as one of the most commanding by any director from the last decade. I have certainly seen nothing like it for...

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Nick Clarke

Nick Clarke

Working in advertising, writing for a number of national newspaper and magazine titles and currently clawing his way through his PhD in film, Nick has nurtured a passion for media and the arts for over a decade. He tries not to take himself too seriously but finds it difficult. As such he harbours the faintly ridiculous belief that one- day he will write a definitive, universally lauded book on a subject that he thinks he knows something about. Given that he is fanatical about Soul music, 1970s cinema and boxing, it might be about one of those. Given that he also is very indecisive and non-committal it also might not be.