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Nick Pinkerton by Maximum Russell for Electric Ghost.N
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Nick Pinkerton prefers not to.

"Part of the urge to disconnect is tied up in trying to figure out how you can set your own agenda as a critic rather than assenting to play a role in a script that’s been imposed."
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Charles Acland takes Hollywood very seriously.

“These films don’t just sit still; they’re there for people to do something with, and you can see people doing it.”
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Camille Paglia declares cinema done.

"It lasted for a spectacular century—which is actually longer than other important movements in the arts..."
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Iain Robert Smith studies remakesploitation.

"I remember being at a conference and one of the professors said that I’d be a really good scholar once I got over this cult stuff."
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Anders Thomas Jensen won’t judge.

"I’ve tried to show a lot of bad people in a good light."
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Dea Kulumbegashvili is just beginning.

“I don’t believe in being strong. I believe in being vulnerable.”
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Cristi Puiu has death on his mind.

“I believe that the best position of the camera is the one where death is visible.”
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Agnieszka Holland won’t forget the past.

"There is a duty to translate this history into the feature film, which is a popular art that can reach people and wake up their imagination and emotions."
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Benedict Andrews finds the grace of truth in a cinema icon.

"We are depicting a woman who goes through fire and comes out radically transformed."
Kantemir Balagov, Born 28 July 1991, Nalchik, RussiaK
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Kantemir Balagov has a passion.

"You can be an old man at the age of eighteen, mentally or physically. It doesn’t matter that much if you don’t have a passion for life."
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Nora Fingscheidt goes extreme.

"I’m still fascinated by people with extreme energy, even when it's self destructive.”
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Denis Côté enjoys not knowing.

"They thought I was shooting a horror film and then I got fed up and I said it’s a film about the living."
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Dallas Sonnier is making outlaw cinema.

"We will always be the renegade Texans running around trying to stir the pot."
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Richard Squires examines otherness.

"Many of our ideas are in some way inspired by the imagery we have been exposed to."
Félix Maritaud, Camille Vidal-NaquetC
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Camille Vidal-Naquet and Félix Maritaud want us to feel.

"I think it’s amazing to take some people, and take them to a world of fiction, and to make them feel something that has no existence, and to create humanity."
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Syllas Tzoumerkas ponders paradise.

"The film creates a grey zone about justice and what is right and if there actually is a justice bestowed by God."
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