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The Jinx: not my documentary renaissance
Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling’s gotcha documentary series explores the porous boundary between bad art and bad journalism, says Robert Greene.
Monday 23 March 2015 -
From the Magazine
The great game: Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake
The extraordinary footage assembled in Adam Curtis’s powerful film about the tangled history of Afghanistan offers some welcome insights – but in his bid to counteract the lazy fables of good and evil beloved of some politicians, is the director in danger of oversimplification too? By Jason Burke.
Monday 23 February 2015 -
A chill Nor’easter: Olive Kitteridge
Frances McDormand cuts to the quick in Lisa Cholodenko’s rare tragicomedy of female unlikability. By Molly Haskell.
Thursday 12 February 2015 -
Shine a light: Jill Soloway’s Transparent
Two decades after the florescence of the New Queer Cinema, internet TV brings us sex-positivity on demand. Sophie Mayer on Jill Soloway’s hit comedy series.
Monday 2 February 2015 -
British TV drama versus the world
Is the UK television drama finally back to doing what it does best? Nick Edwards reports.
Thursday 27 November 2014 -
Steven Soderbergh’s vigorous Victorian-era medical series marries the vogue for graphic-novel stylings with the perverse pleasures of peering at vintage medical books, says Nick James.
Sunday 12 October 2014 -
From the Magazine
Having ‘retired’ from Hollywood, Steven Soderbergh is applying what he learned in cinema to his TV medical series The Knick, writes Peter Labuza.
Friday 10 October 2014 -
The Singing Detective: 25 years on
Is Dennis Potter’s singalong noir miniseries the all-time pinnacle of television drama? Graham Fuller thinks so.
Wednesday 16 November 2011 -
From the Magazine
The Wire, HBO’s series about cops and the drug trade in Baltimore, inspires deep cult loyalty and critical plaudits. Kent Jones considers what makes it so much more than just good TV.
Monday 14 April 2008
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