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October 2013
The American mythologist Joseph Campbell is to blame for the rise of moral relativism in the movie world — as Thomas Mann observed
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October 2013
There have been rumblings in the US film industry that headline names are not justifying their bloated pay-cheques. But despite this, and the onslaught of the computer-animation industry, the old-fashioned concept of the movie star has shown rem
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July/August 2009
Hollywood and physics should be kept apart — pretty much like matter and anti-matter
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February 2009
In the run-up to the Oscars, the doyen of British film criticism Philip French discusses the demise of cinema as an art form with Standpoint's critic Peter Whittle and editor Daniel Johnson
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