FREEDOM

Skid row outsiders, uninhibited deviants and liberating servitude

Reviews:

Beasts of the Southern Wild: A fantastical paean to harsh, wild freedom American-style
Female Trouble: The freedom of deviance according to John Waters

Baby Face: The emancipating power of sex and money

Woman of the Dunes: Trapped like a bug in the sand

The Getaway: Sam Peckinpah freely adapts Jim Thompson

Mesrine: French public enemy number 1 escapes – again and again

Articles:

The Master: Paul Thomas Anderson and Freedom

Interview:

Greg Klymkiw talks about the liberating power of servitude with the Brothers Quay to mark the American DVD release of Institute Benjamenta

Comic Strip Review:

'I am not a number!': The Prisoner

Podcast:

The Films of Rex Bloomstein: Alex Fitch talks to director Rex Bloomstein about his films Traitors to Hitler (1979), KZ (2006) and An Independent Mind (2008) and discusses documenting persecution and freedom of speech on film and notions of psychogeography in the documentary process.

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