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February 20, 2022
Miguel Llansó’s Jesus ShowsYou The Way To The Highway
Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway is a carefully blended mixture of styles and elements that seems at first to be nothing but […]
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January 30, 2022
The Films Of Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Niki Lindroth von Bahr fits right in with her Nordic peers. If you enjoy the films of Roy Anderson, Alex van Warmerdam or Jens Lien you are sure to […]
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January 16, 2022
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog
This article does not contain any outright spoilers but I do not recommend reading it unless you have seen the movie. In Jane Campion’s […]
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December 26, 2021
Hilal Baydarov’s 2020 film In Between Dying is Wonderful
In Between Dying was written and directed by Hilal Baydarov in 2020. It was filmed primarily in Baydarov ’s home country of Azerbaijan which sits […]
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December 23, 2021
The Sympathetic Vibrations Of Candyman
If you press hard on a piano key it will not only sound the string connected to the key but it will vibrate a […]
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November 18, 2021
An Analysis Of A 4 Minute Sexually Explicit Video
I recently watched an odd video I found on a porn site. It was the title that enticed me to click on it, Playing With Things […]
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November 10, 2021
Bodied: Word Play About Word Play About Hip Hop
Alex Larson wrote the film Bodied and Joseph Kahn directed it, but it is Eminem’s influence as the producer that is immediately apparent. There are obvious similarities […]
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November 10, 2021
Hollywood’s Brand of Feminism
Hollywood’s idea of feminism is a woman behaving like a man. The approach leaves the stereotypical gender roles unchallenged and then simply gives a female […]
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November 9, 2021
Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer
In 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos released his remarkable film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Everything about its look and feel is unusual. The pacing, the compositions, […]
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November 8, 2021
Don’t Miss Gantz
Every cinephile has a film they believe deserved more attention than it received. Mine is the science fiction, thriller Gantz from Japan. This is a wonderfully creative […]
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November 8, 2021
Self Awareness in Rear Window vs. The Tenant
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Roman Polanski’s The Tenant are both films about observing and being observed. Rear Window was released in 1954 and The Tenant was released two decades later in 1976. […]
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November 8, 2021
Deadpan as a Filming Technique in Roy Anderson’s Films
Deadpan is not ordinarily ascribed to a style of filmmaking. It is more often associated with the lack of emotion on an actor’s face during […]
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November 8, 2021
The Manipulation of Sympathy in Parasite and Us.
In his movie Psycho, Hitchcock famously had Marion Crane, played by the movie’s biggest star Janet Leigh, murdered in the first third of the film. The audience […]
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November 7, 2021
Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows
In 2009 Director Mohammad Rasoulof was imprisoned for making The White Meadows. He was accused of “acting against national security and propaganda against the regime” and […]
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November 6, 2021
Niki Lindroth von Bahr's The Burden
How do you like your existentialism served? Perhaps as a song sung by a fish in a bathrobe sitting in a bleak, little hotel room? […]
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November 6, 2021
Alan Arkin's Little Murders
In 1971 with a budget just under $100,000 Alan Arkin and Jules Feiffer crafted an absurd masterwork of vicious intensity. Little Murders is less a narrative film […]
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November 4, 2021
The Unacceptable Truth of Compliance
Craig Zobel’s 2012 movie Compliance is a great film but I hate it. Watching it was a strain. When it was shown in theaters there were numerous […]
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November 4, 2021
The New Equine Cinema
Breathlessly, ardently I beseech you all to harken to my call. Let me be the harbinger of a cinema most revolutionary! It has come to […]
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November 4, 2021
My Odyssey Pursuing A Horrible and Mysterious Thing Called The Greatest Sci-Fi Movie Ever
The only way to make sense of what happened is to just begin at the beginning. I am a cinephile and as such I seek […]
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November 4, 2021
Cartoonish Depictions in a Cartoon: The Controversy Over Mutafukaz
There has been some controversy concerning Guillaume Renard and Shojiro Nishimi’s 2017 animated film Mutafukaz. The issue has to do who gets to depict whom. […]
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November 3, 2021
The Dark Trance of Horse Money
In writing about Pedro Costa’s film Horse Money there is no place to start. The film defies description or analysis. You have to just open yourself to […]
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November 3, 2021
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open: Storytelling In Real Time
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open blends form and function to create a compelling narrative whole. Its proof positive that the rules of filmmaking […]
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November 3, 2021
Galder Gaztelu-Urruti’s Platform
The Platform is a metaphor in the tradition of Animal Farm or Lord of The Flies. It very clearly focuses on capitalist ideology and has a secondary biblical theme […]
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