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Author Archives: Oscar Jelley

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Only Boring People Get Bored: On Haughty Films

by Oscar Jelley February 21, 2022February 21, 2022
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Manners Faketh Man

by Oscar Jelley June 22, 2021June 22, 2021
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Delia Derbyshire: A Very Strange Beast

by Oscar Jelley May 25, 2021May 25, 2021
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The Trouble With Twins: Ildikó Enyedi’s My 20th Century

by Oscar Jelley April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
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Cinema’s Danish Doyen: Why Try Dreyer?

by Oscar Jelley November 22, 2020November 23, 2020
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Wild about Daddy Cool: Thoughts on the BBC’s Paternalism

by Oscar Jelley September 17, 2020September 17, 2020
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The Lone and Level Sands

by Oscar Jelley July 23, 2020September 3, 2020
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Talking Heads: Alan Bennett’s Elegy for the Everyday

by Oscar Jelley July 15, 2020September 3, 2020

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