Articles by Robert Bell

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  Slow West

  John Maclean

  PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2015

  John Maclean, who is better known for his abstract musical sensibilities and his past as a member of the Beta Band, has chosen a peculiar p...

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  The Pillow Book

  Peter Greenaway

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2015

  In the commentary track with visual artist auteur Peter Greenaway included with the Film Movement Blu-ray release of The Pillow Book, the d...

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  Hungry Hearts

  Saverio Costanzo

  PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2015

  Initially, Hungry Hearts, Saverio Costanzo's adaptation of Marco Franzoso's novel, The Indigo Child, presents as a low budget romantic come...

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  Aloft

  Claudia Llosa

  PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2015

  Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's first two feature films, Madeinusa and The Milk of Sorrow, were effective, albeit provincial, exercises i...

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  Escape From New York: Collector's Edition

  John Carpenter

  PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2015

  Escape From New York was actually written by John Carpenter nearly ten years before it went into production. Being more of a big budget pro...

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  Stigmata

  Rupert Wainwright

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2015

  In the late '90s and the early part of the 2000s, the religious horror film made a minor resurgence. The genre had been wildly successful i...

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  Survivor

  James McTeigue

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2015

  Since jumping onto the scene in 2005 with the divisive and oft-referenced bit of polemical fantasy, V for Vendetta, James McTeigue hasn't d...

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  I'll See You in My Dreams

  Brett Haley

  PUBLISHED May 28, 2015

  Brett Haley's sophomore feature, I'll See You in My Dreams, concerns itself with the nature of mortality and the seeming futility of existe...