en Kermode Uncut Feed Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark is the UK's leading film critic. This twice-weekly video blog is the place where he airs his personal views on the things that most fire him up about cinema - and invites you to give your own opinions. Fri, 30 May 2014 10:36:56 +0000 Zend_Feed_Writer 2 (http://framework.zend.com) /blogs/markkermode Shake Down Fri, 30 May 2014 10:36:56 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/528e604d-5e65-37e1-88be-d642b4ddddc6 /blogs/markkermode/entries/528e604d-5e65-37e1-88be-d642b4ddddc6 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

One of the newest cinema innovations is D-Box - a device that causes your seat to move at certain moments during the movie. This is just one in a long line of gimmicks designed to ‘enhance' your viewing pleasure...

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Fifty Years Of Film Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:23:40 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/03a7f210-454b-38cc-a8a0-e3d125ee6bce /blogs/markkermode/entries/03a7f210-454b-38cc-a8a0-e3d125ee6bce Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

I turned fifty this year and next Saturday there's a documentary on 5 live charting the way the cinema has changed during my lifetime. What are your first memories of the silver screen?

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Film Club - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:37:17 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/19aa20ec-fd9f-30e3-98e6-6c6bb8a6a07d /blogs/markkermode/entries/19aa20ec-fd9f-30e3-98e6-6c6bb8a6a07d Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

The second Kermode Uncut Film Club choice is David Lynch's magnificent 1992 horror movie. Watch this introduction and let me know what you think of the film.

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Iron Sky Is Here! Fri, 25 May 2012 09:43:41 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/a6f37586-b8a7-33d7-acf0-cead163e6edd /blogs/markkermode/entries/a6f37586-b8a7-33d7-acf0-cead163e6edd Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

I've been following the progress of the Nazis on the moon movie Iron Sky for years. It has finally arrived in UK cinemas - or has it?

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The Great Trailer Debate Fri, 18 May 2012 11:27:44 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/07124a89-1b4c-3404-99aa-9d774727a34a /blogs/markkermode/entries/07124a89-1b4c-3404-99aa-9d774727a34a Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

I posted recently saying how much I hated long excerpts from films being used in marketing campaigns. This seems to have touched a nerve - here are some of your responses.

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Then and Now Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:23:32 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/49137e55-c876-397a-8b8d-cbf33d782ac2 /blogs/markkermode/entries/49137e55-c876-397a-8b8d-cbf33d782ac2 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

I've been checking out some of the beautiful historic cinemas in Memphis and thinking about a recent news story saying ticket prices are set to rise to subsidise the costs of 3D. You can imagine my reaction...

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The Tracks of Your Tears Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:00:33 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/8d9500b0-ad1e-3173-9f71-2ab74f00ba1e /blogs/markkermode/entries/8d9500b0-ad1e-3173-9f71-2ab74f00ba1e Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

When I asked you to tell me about the films that make you cry and why I never expected such a huge response. Here I pick out some of the most eye-watering examples...

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The Film That Changed My Life Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:13:20 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/e7c74aa2-8265-373e-aaad-ccda7eca6b72 /blogs/markkermode/entries/e7c74aa2-8265-373e-aaad-ccda7eca6b72 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

made me think about the experience that made me fall in love with cinema. In my case it was - but what was the film you remember seeing that changed everything.

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Projecting The Future Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:25:54 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/dece09d3-9938-3676-83d9-4fb3e05de9b6 /blogs/markkermode/entries/dece09d3-9938-3676-83d9-4fb3e05de9b6 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode I'm very preoccupied lately by the fate of projectionists in the digital age and what that means for modern cinema. Here I recount some recent frustrating experiences with the new technology of film.

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Twisting My Words Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/4799b4b7-14f4-388a-b089-244255392562 /blogs/markkermode/entries/4799b4b7-14f4-388a-b089-244255392562 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

There was a recently about a DVD cover that misused a review by me to sell a film as hilarious when I had actually found it pretty unfunny.
It's happened to lots of critics and here I give you a few other examples of cheeky selective quotation.

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In the Realm of James Ferman Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:00:00 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/040879fa-569c-3895-b780-b41f23ca101b /blogs/markkermode/entries/040879fa-569c-3895-b780-b41f23ca101b Mark Kermode Mark Kermode An Oshima retrospective at the BFI recalls a revealing story about the true nature of film censorship in the UK, in this instance concerning the Japanese master's most famous and notorious masterpiece, Ai No Corrida AKA In the Realm of the Senses.

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The Pirate of Cropredy Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/72736261-156f-3cf7-8cad-120d9ef16e07 /blogs/markkermode/entries/72736261-156f-3cf7-8cad-120d9ef16e07 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode So here I am at the delightful Cropredy Festival having a wonderful relaxed time among a crowd of happy, easy-going people when my eye catches something that reminds me of some very bad news. Pirate news. Pirates of the Caribbean news. Pirate of the Caribbean news with a bitter and ruthless twist.

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The Boorman/Tarantino Nexus Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:00:00 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/d2b2f72a-1fb7-33f1-955c-a9a1c74fb5f8 /blogs/markkermode/entries/d2b2f72a-1fb7-33f1-955c-a9a1c74fb5f8 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode Left to its own devices the Kermode Uncut blog recombined the Boorman and Tarantino items to generate an explosion of energetic, elevated and enterprising discussion to which I am here delighted to alert you.

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The Tarantino Situation Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/a8d04149-bb57-3ad9-ba5e-9ff207b18fce /blogs/markkermode/entries/a8d04149-bb57-3ad9-ba5e-9ff207b18fce Mark Kermode Mark Kermode Everyone knows his name, everyone knows he's the ultimate fanboy turned auteur. So why has this Inglourious Basterd never again scaled the creative heights of his early oeuvre? Why has everything he's made since looked, well, rather shoddy by comparison?

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John Boorman: an exorcism Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:00:00 +0000 /blogs/markkermode/entries/27c9e216-9ffc-30cb-9d93-89cf6842057c /blogs/markkermode/entries/27c9e216-9ffc-30cb-9d93-89cf6842057c Mark Kermode Mark Kermode Perusing your comments I came across a request to explain my antipathy toward John Boorman, the director behind such brilliant movies as Hell in the Pacific, Point Blank and Deliverance. Yeah. And Exorcist II: The Heretic, the Worst-Film-Ever-Made. Starting to make sense? Anyway, it occurred to me that Kermode Uncut is as good a place as any to get this thing out of my system.

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