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Full Excerpt: "JAG: Do you have a particular philosophy in your films, an aim beyond providing entertainment? AP: I work within the commercial cinema framework. I want my films to be seen by the maximum number of people. I don't want them to be seen by film critics and six intellectuals at a cinématheque. That doesn't interest me. By the same token, I want to say more than just sit down and laugh or cry. You want the film to stay with people afterwards. There are images in films that you remember when you leave the cinema, and maybe you remember them for longer than that. I try to give a cinematic experience that is not just another movie. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't succeed, but I always try for it. It just seems to me that the greatest crime is to make just another movie." (Alan Parker's interview with John.A.Gallagher, 1987)

NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024 First Look: Fiction Tapeworm Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.