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Welcome to the MySpace for Alternate Takes - a place for a different kind of film criticism.
We believe most true film lovers' appreciation of cinema lies somewhere between the two poles generally available to them at present: the star-rating-style magazine/newspaper review and the academic film journal.
Alternate Takes seeks to fill the gap between the two with an approach that is in-depth yet accessible, serious yet enjoyable.
This space is for passionate and engaged discussion on and around our articles. We want you to share our love of film and our compulsive need to read and talk about it.
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There Will Be Blood Alt Take now up

Hey all,It’s been a long time coming, but our Alternate Take of There Will Be Blood is now up on the site. It’s an odd little monster of a piece: a pretty in-depth analysis that argues tha...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:13:00 GMT

The Significance of Film Names (POST RESPONSES HERE)

Hello! It's been a long while since our last update - apologies for that. This return to myspace land has been prompted by an article that just cries out for reader response. In it we identify some of...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:58:00 GMT

All our features in one place (other than the site)...!

Since we've been a little slack at updating the space lately, we have decided to undertake a major project, and collect all the features on the site into one place so that we can open them up for disc...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:16:00 GMT

Volver...

We now have our review and Alternate Take of Volver up on the site for your perusal. Mair Bosworth was absolutely enraptured by this, Almodovar's return to women as his primary subject, finding t...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:31:00 GMT

The Wicker Man...

Up for a while have been our review and Alternate Take for Neil Labute's The Wicker Man. Kevin Pearson doesn't think much of it, representing as it does the nadir of Labute's career so far - a c...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:23:00 GMT

A Scanner Darkly...

The almost impossibly prolific-of-late-Linklater's latest has its review and Alternate Take up on the site now. Absolutely impeccable on the levels of interaction between its mesmerizing style an...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:28:00 GMT

Crank...

Our review and Alternate Take of the hyper-kinetic (in literally all ways) Crank are now on the site. Reviewer Tom Hughes found this film to be a big load of fun, up to a point, and the...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:39:00 GMT

Snakes on a Plane...

Pete Falconer's review of the, thankfully, hugely enjoyable Snakes on a (Motherfuckin') Plane is up for your perusal, with an Alternate Take to follow soon. I was personally massively relieved th...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:33:00 GMT

Of human courage and human bondage: (WTC and Bettie Page)...

Hello readers. We have recently put up our review and Alternate Take (of Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page - a film which, although perhaps not as provocative as one might hope for, still o...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:41:00 GMT

'United 93: Apolitical Propaganda?'...

Recently up on the site is 'United 93: Apolitical Propaganda?', a feature on Paul Greengrass' outright harrowing United 93. I wrote this becuase I knew that there was no way I could just do ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:29:00 GMT