Adam Lowes
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BFI Uncut Season: ‘Pink Flamingos’ review
★★★★☆ John Walters’ 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos proved less problematic across the Atlantic than it did in the UK, and found a niche via the midnight movies circuit – a movement which also offered a cinematic afterlife to similar, non-mainstream features (films which formed the basis, alongside Pink Flamingos, of an entertaining 2005 documentary…
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Interview: Chris Smith, director of ‘The Pool’
Chris Smith is a celebrated and award-winning American documentary filmmaker (best known for 1999’s American Movie and 2003’s The Yes Men), whose 2007 feature The Pool finally sees the theatrical light of day over here this week. The story of a young Indian boy who finds sanctity and a paradise in the palatial garden of…
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Film Review: ‘The Pool’
★★★★☆ American documentary filmmaker Chris Smith’s The Pool has been sitting on the shelf for over five years now, having won a Special Jury Prize way back at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Thankfully, it now finally receives a limited released in the UK this Friday, and has definitely been worth the wait. An uneducated…
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Special Feature: ‘Hollywood Costume’ at the V&A
What better way to get closer to the movies you cherish than to see the actual, iconic costumes which were once adorned by your favourite screen stars? From now up until the end of January 2013, London’s V&A plays host to the long-awaited Hollywood Costume exhibition. The gallery’s Senior Guest Curator is one Deborah Nadoolman Landis,…