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Alex Garland explores social breakdown and internecine strife across the US in this explosive blockbuster.
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Sometimes I Think About Dying: downbeat workplace indie shows another side to Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley stars as an introverted Oregon officer worker who has elaborate visions of her own death in this slight, gentle story of a tentative search for human connection.
By David Katz
BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for Wales
BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for WalesElaine May: laughing matters
By Carrie Rickey
O dreamlands: why Lindsay Anderson was never the realist he claimed to be
By Henry K Miller
“Ford is a director with whom things are either right or wrong”: Lindsay Anderson’s review of The Searchers
By Lindsay Anderson
All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
By Roger Luckhurst
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