Articles tagged "the fall"

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Film Review

The Fall

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.08] :. The story Roy tells reflects both their desires, revealed throughout The Fall in brilliantly colored images.

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Pick Just One Feature

The Fall

by Ian Mathers

[25.Apr.08] :. The frightening, wonderful world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall offers decades of music and dozens of albums to sift through for the one that best represents what they are all about.

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Music Review

The Fall: Reformation Post T.L.C

by John Dover

[28.Mar.07] :. Mark E. Smith has previously thrived on conflict and controversy, but this time the fallout from yet another dramatic line-up change has resulted in one of the Fall's more disappointing releases.

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Music Review

The Fall: Fall Heads Roll

by Josh Berquist

[30.Nov.05] :. Punk's last lone standing band of any repute returns with an infectious record that secures their certain doom.

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The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour: Expanded Deluxe Edition

by Adrien Begrand

[20.Sep.05] :. The lavish reissue of the seminal 1982 album by The Fall sounds just as potent today, or perhaps even more so.

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The Fall: 50,000 Fans Can’t Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats

by Adrien Begrand

[2.Jul.04] :. It was most interesting when Mark E. Smith, during a recent newspaper interview, mentioned that author William S. Burroughs’ experimental album Nothing Here Now But the Recordings was a...

 

The Fall: The Real New Fall LP

by Richard T. Williams

[3.May.04] :. If the Fall, or rather Curmudgeon Mark E. Smith’s Band of UK Football Fans, Beer Drinkers, and Female Keyboardists, Version 35.1, have not just released their best record in a decade, they have...

 

The Fall by Simon Mawer

by Celia S. McClinton

[19.Feb.03] :. Has little to do with mountain climbing and a lot to do with the general situation of humankind.