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‘Trash’ movies, the refuse of mainstream cinema
Shot largely without technical skill and featuring performers without conventional talent, America’s taboo-busting trash classics offer a gleeful celebration of everything that might appal a mainstream audience. From our September 2015 issue.
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Anora: Sean Baker’s demolition of the Pretty Woman fantasy is his most vivid creation yet
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Vermiglio: a slow-burn Italian family saga of immense subtlety
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“A lot of this footage had never been seen in South Africa”: Milisuthando Bongela on her documentary-memoir Milisuthando
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Emilia Pérez: Jacques Audiard’s outlandish telenovela-style musical shouldn't work, but it does
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Dahomey second look review: haunting documentary captures the homecoming of looted treasures
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Everyone's entitled to one good scare: Halloween reviewed in 1979
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
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Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
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