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JDIFF 2015: Listen Up Philip
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. Listen Up Philip ★★★½ With Listen Up Philip, the director Alex Ross Perry has crafted a film that’s a little like its main character Philip – incredibly charming and...
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JDIFF 2015: The Connection (La French) // Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart...
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. The Connection (La French) ★★★½ The Connection (La French) centres on the same historical event as William Friedkin’s seventies classic The French Connection but,...
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JDIFF 2015: Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang // The Crowd
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang ★★ This is not a film about North Korea, basketball or America. It’s an unsettling look at the unravelling of a man who can’t...
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JDIFF 2015: Tu Dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole) // The Dark Horse
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. Tu Dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole) ★★★★ Tu Dors Nicole was a charming droll surreal arthouse film about a young woman at a crossroads in her life. Nicole...
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JDIFF 2015: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night // Return to Ithaca
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ★★★★½ Late last year, an Iranian/American vampire film showed up on a number of US-based journalist’s “end of year” lists with...
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JDIFF 2015: Force Majeure // Samba // Clouds of Sils Maria
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. Force Majeure ★★★★★ Family holidays can be a tense affair at the best of times, Force Majeure focuses on a Swedish family off enjoying their skiing holiday in the...
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JDIFF 2015: The Canal // Ten Years In The Sun // After the Dance // A Pigeon...
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. The Canal ★★★★ You think you’ve seen most things in a genre and then one scene in The Canal, Ivan Kavanagh’s new film, makes you want to take your eyeballs out and...
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JDIFF 2015: “Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater”
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater ★★★★½ Gabe Klinger’s documentary is a special opportunity to check in and hang out with two directors, both wonderful...
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JDIFF 2015: Far From Men (Loin des Hommes) // The New Girlfriend (Une...
Read all our JDIFF coverage here. Far From Men (Loin des Hommes) ★★★★ Far from Men is a revisionist Western set in Algeria in 1954 and based on Albert Camus’s short story “The Guest”. Viggo Mortensen...
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Spooool.ie Podcast #28 – JDIFF 2015 Round-up
SO MANY FILMZZZ. It’s nearly all JDIFF this month as we tackle a whole load of films we saw, don’t forget to check out the full slate of reviews over here though. We also discuss the IFI’s Critical...
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The Price of Desire
This review originally appeared as part of our JDIFF 2015 coverage ★★ Unfortunately the film about one of the most important figures in the Modernist Movement in architecture – directed by a woman and...
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