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The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

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Culture

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s

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