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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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Continue reading →: Red RiverApparently there is a longer, pre-release version of this film on the Criterion Blu-ray with dissolves into pages from a book in place of Groot’s narrations. This is my first viewing of any version of Red River, so I can’t dictate whichever is preferred, but this version is outstanding nonetheless.…
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Continue reading →: Geographies of SolitudeGeographies of Solitude begins by silently following Zoe Lucas around Sable island; we then see trancelike magic hour imageries of horses posing on open prairies and waves crashing onto the shore. The titular solitude can describe both Sable Island and the lonely old lady who diligently collects horse dung and maintains a…
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Continue reading →: Eyes Wide ShutTo start off the new year, I want to review one of the best film I saw over the Christmas holiday. This might become the definitive Christmas movie for me, because I have never seen this many interior Christmas lights in a movie before. Currently, I don’t have a locked…
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Continue reading →: The Novelist’s Film – Hong Sang-SooHong Sang-Soo’s The Novelist’s Film is a pure-hearted work. Following a revered novelist, Jun-Lee, suffering from writer’s block, the film presents a series of rendezvous and new encounters that exude the life of art and the art of life. As usual, Hong’s muse, Kim Min-hee, appears in the film as…
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Continue reading →: All We Imagine as LightWinner of the Grand Jury prize at Cannes earlier this year, Payal Kapadia’s narrative film debut All We Imagine as Light is foremost a moody poem. Transitioning from documentary filmmaking, Kapadia begins the film with a series of voiceovers from real-life migrant workers living in Mumbai, explaining the ambivalence of…
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