Richard Linklater’s intimate epic of adolescence, in cinemas today, was twelve years in the making. A review by Indy Datta.
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Hit The Road
The Blu-ray release of Sullivan’s Travels gives Fiona Pleasance a chance to revisit a forgotten classic. 
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Men for all Seasons
Jersey Boys is the latest musical theatre blockbuster to get the big screen treatment. Viv Wilby assesses Clint Eastwood’s take on this tale of crime and close-harmony singing.
The Piano
Philip Concannon revisits the 1993 Palme D’Or Winner, now out on Blu-ray, in the year its director heads the Cannes jury.
Mostly Shorts – the Big Ones
The latest instalment in the increasingly less occasional series, brought to you once again by the intrepid Indy Datta, looks this time at short-form work from big-name film-makers.
See Rome, And Live!
Niall Anderson sees a new restoration of Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 classic, Rome: Open City
Phantom of the Paradise
Brian de Palma’s cult musical – a riff on Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Faust – is reissued in a typically spiffy new Blu-ray edition by Arrow Films today. Blake Backlash takes a look.
Her
For St Valentine’s Day, Niall Anderson reviews Spike Jonze’s, uh-heh, “singular” love story.
Natan – Part 2
Part 2 of David Cairns’ recounting of the strange story of Bernard Natan. Part 1 was published yesterday.
Natan – Part 1
MostlyFilm regular Paul Duane, who has written about his films Barbaric Genius and Very Extremely Dangerous in these pages, has teamed up with the most excellent David Cairns to make an acclaimed documentary about the once-notorious, now obscure, Bernard Natan, which will receive its English premiere this weekend. In this 2-part essay (the 2nd part will be published tomorrow), David recounts the whole strange story.
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