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Continue reading →: In Theatre: MisericordiaA lot of our world can be explained by a guilty conscience and blood rushing into specific body parts. If that is the case, Alain Guiraudie’s newest dark comedy Misericordia certainly encapsulates the entirety of the world. Following a man in his early thirties returning to his small, bucolic hometown…
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Continue reading →: Fire of WindMarta Mateus’s Fire of Wind, clocking in at 74 minutes, feels like it spans decades. This is not a sly reference to its gorgeously photographed, glacially moving scenes, but a compliment to how it ingeniously pierces through time despite the simplicity of its liminal, pastoral setting. The film opens with…
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Continue reading →: Flowers of ShanghaiOnly seen some of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s more personal works from the 80s and Millenium Mambo thus far, Flowers of Shanghai is the most fluid work I have seen from him. I have deep emotional connections to his childhood trilogy, but one can easily argue they are too formally rigorous for their own…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: Black BagBlack Bag is the second film from Steven Soderbergh that received a theatrical release this year. Starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbinder with a dynamic ensemble cast including Naomi Harris, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, and Regé-Jean Page as an ensemble of spies entangled within a murderous conspiracy that threatened the…
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Continue reading →: Favourite Watches of FebruaryJeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Personally, the 3 and a half hours flew by faster than any other films I’ve seen of the same length. Maybe staring at Delphine Seyrig doing house chores is ultimately what cinema is all about. A film with such a distinct spatial…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: I’m Still HerePhotography as a means to access memories and a path to activism. Walter Salles’s true story familial drama I’m Still Here is unquestionably the biggest surprise out of the Oscars Best Picture line-up this year. In recent years, the Academy has developed a yearly tradition of granting a spot or…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: CompanionReleasing at the tail-end of Dumpuary, Companion stars Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid as a couple travelling to their friends’ lake cabin for a weekend getaway. In the beginning, Thatcher’s narration declares that by the film’s end, Iris will murder her boyfriend Josh. Along with the official poster and trailer,…
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Continue reading →: Favourite Watches of JanuaryNorth By Northwest This is how you use VistaVision. It has one of the silliest plots out there, and quite ridiculous when you break it apart. But who cares about the plot, and why break it? Don’t be a malicious child. This is Hitchcock’s more relaxed and free movie because…
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Continue reading →: Blue Velvet – A Film of SymbolsLooking back at David Lynch’s three movie outputs from the 80s, Blue Velvet can easily be viewed as a standalone representation of his oeuvre. The traditional narrative of The Elephant Man does not sufficiently cover Lynch’s sensibility in the eyes of his fans; most people are inclined to forget about…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: Nickel BoysAdapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Ramell Ross’s debut narrative film Nickel Boys is an epic both in terms of its formal ambitions and the size of its period time frame. It initially takes place primarily in Tallahassee, Florida, during the 60s, where the Jim Crow…
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