The Idiots

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Dogme 2 Aka Idioterne. A strikingly original and thought-provoking film about a group of people who confront and subvert the norms and conventions of middle class society by exploring and releasing their inner idiot. Produced in accordance with the revolutionary Dogme 95 Manifesto. 'This is real cinema: original, hilarious, unexpected, affecting, shattering' Empire.

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Dogma '95 manifesto; Theatrical trailer; filmographies; stills gallery; text interview and character analysis.

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Article - "The Realm of the Censors" by John Hoyles
Tuesday 29th August 2000

Yes, it's out on video, even in Pudding Island, the most ferocious film ever made about sexual obsession. Watch it in the light of the following touchstones: 'Pornography is an appropriate means to cure our society from its genital panic' (Otto Muehl); 'To imagine is...  View article in full

Article - "Flicker Fusion: A fond farewell to film" by Julian Upton
Friday 8th September 2006

My aesthetic Luddism kicked in when I was growing up in the eighties. Even though I’d been too young to really appreciate the virtues of Super 8 cine-film, I was already lamenting its replacement with video. Home videos looked ugly, shaky and fizzy; Super 8, although...  View article in full

Article - "Sex, Class and Censorship" by Julian Upton
Tuesday 1st July 2008

When the first novelty picture houses opened in fairgrounds at the start of the twentieth century, it didn’t take the establishment long to realise that the crude films being shown were having a powerful hold on the working classes. Consequently, the British Board of...  View article in full

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A Beginner's Guide to Dogme 95

Including: Breaking The Waves, Dancer in The Dark, In Your Hands, Italian for Beginners, Julien Donkey-Boy, Red Road, The Idiots, The King Is Alive.

Dogma Films

Including: In Your Hands, Italian for Beginners, Julien Donkey-Boy, Open Hearts, The Celebration / Festen, The Idiots, The King Is Alive.

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Films that challenged me. by Peter Curtis

These are all films that opened my eyes to subjects and problems and made me address how I felt about them. Sometimes it was a single scene, sometimes a whole movie, but all of them were thought provoking.

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