Alex
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Risk, Reward and Resurrection: California Split and Mississippi Grind
A look into the intoxicating dens of vice in Mississippi Grind and California Split.
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Kino-Pravda Docs #7: – Titicut Follies
A look and a look back at one of the starkest documentaries ever filmed.
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Kino-Pravda Docs: #6 – A Film Unfinished
A look at the unmasking of lies in A Film Unfinished.
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The Human Condition (3/3) – Escaping Death/Wandering in the Wilderness
A final confronting look with Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition.
A.O Scott, Chuji Kinoshita, Cinema, Death, Epic, Existentialism, Faith, Film, Film Pravda, Francis Ford Coppola, Grappling with ideas, History, Ideas, Japan, Junpei Gomikawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Ningen No Joken, No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, Sam Raimi, Spiderman, Stories, Survival, Tatsuya Nakadai, The Godfather, Truth, Violence, Women, Yoshio Miyajima
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Blow-Up : Antononi’s Lens and Why I Don’t Like It
A look and struggle with my dislike of Blow Up, and why it’s hard for me to accept that.
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The Big Sick : Laughing Through the Tears
Looking into the sweet, sometimes painful honesty of The Big Sick.
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A Ghost Story : Phantom Mechanics
A look down the mystifying rabbit hole of A Ghost Story.
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The Ghoul: A Tale of Divided Surfaces
A look into the creepy fractures of Gareth Tunley’s The Ghoul.
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The Beguiled : Fading Magic
A look into the collapsing mysteries of Sofia Coppola’s film The Beguiled.
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The Human Condition (2/3) : Nostalgia/The Fog of War
A continuing look at Masaki Kobayashi’s monumental 9 hour trilogy, and its second part.
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