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Features | Tuesday, 06 July 2010 Written by Emma Simmonds
Fatal Attraction Part 2: The French Connection
In the concluding part of a two-part piece on cinema's wicked, wanton women, Emma Simmonds shifts the focus to four significant French contributions to the character type.
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Features | Thursday, 01 July 2010 Written by Neil Mitchell
Reel World: Quadrophenia
The notorious clashes between the warring tribes of Mods and Rockers during the 1960s formed the centrepiece of Franc Roddam's loose adaptation of The Who's 1973 'rock opera' double album of the same name. The opposing youth cults descended on England's seaside resorts on bank holiday 'weekenders', often with violent and chaotic consequences for themselves, residents and tourists alike.
Features | Tuesday, 29 June 2010 Written by Sean Wilson
The Score: The Mission (Composed by Ennio Morricone, 1986)
With certain years come certain musical milestones, soon etched into the minds of subsequent generations. 1977 saw John Williams' Star Wars; 1960, Bernard Herrmann's Psycho; 1974, Jerry Goldsmith's Chinatown and so on. Likewise, it's nigh-on impossible to imagine pre-1986, when Ennio Morricone's landmark score for The Mission didn't grace every chill out album under the sun.
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Features | Saturday, 26 June 2010 Written by Emma Simmonds
Fatal Attraction Part 1: Classic Hollywood noir villainesses
In the first of a two-part piece Emma Simmonds examines four prototype noir villainesses from classic Hollywood cinema. Next week, she looks at the far-reaching legacy of these scintillating spider women by considering French cinema's most memorable femme fatales.
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