Bags is a writer based in Bristol, UK. He likes the idea of being called a 'cultural historian', though 'boring film and music geek' is probably closer to the mark. Ouch.
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Movie Review: The Silence (1963)
Why Ingmar Bergman's 1963 psychological horror keeps me going back for more.
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Movie Review: Katyn
Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda's dramatization of one of his country's great wartime tragedies.
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Movie Review: The Leopard (1963)
Why Luchino Visconti's opulent period piece deserves to be taken seriously.
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Movie Review: The Red Shoes (1948)
Why does Martin Scorsese so value a 1940s film about ballet?
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Movie Review: Il Divo (2008)
Paolo Sorrentino's superb, stylish take on Italian politician Giulio Andreotti.
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Movie Review: Three Monkeys
New film from acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
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Movie Review: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946)
Another look at Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 classic romantic thriller.
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Movie Review: Better Things
Grim social-realist debut feature from British filmmaker Duane Hopkins.
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Movie Review: Che - Part One, The Argentine
Part one of Steven Soderbergh's impressionistic four-hour take on a revolutionary life.
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Movie Review: Of Time and the City
Terence Davies' affecting personal memoir of growing up in post-war Liverpool.
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