Cinema
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Friday (1995)
A comfortable view from the porch of lockdown and F. Gary Gray’s seminal 1995 debut Friday.
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Kino-Pravda Docs: #10 – Close Up
A look at Abbas Kiarostami’s dizzying docufiction masterpiece of truths and lies.
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La Vie Nouvelle (2002)
A shadowed, searching look at Philippe Grandieux’s experimental film, La Vie Nouvelle.
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Eros + Massacre (1969)
A look at Yoshishige (Kiju) Yoshida’s swirling vortex of human love and it’s consequences, his 1969 radical epic Eros + Massacre.
Art, Cinema, Cinematography, Daijirō Harada, Eros + Massacre, Etsushi Takahashi, Film, Film as a political medium, Hasegawa Genkichi, History, Itō Noe, Japan, Japanese New Wave, Kamichika Ichiko, Kiju Yoshida, Love, Mariko Okada, Nouvelle Vague, Politics, Revolution, Temporal relations, Time, Toshiko Ii, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Tsuji Jun, Yûko Kusunoki, Yoshishige Yoshida, Ōsugi Sakae
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Parasite (2019)
A look at how Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite looks at us.
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Mr. Nobody (2009)
It’s hard not to give up, with life I think. I felt that, as Jared Leto delivered a couple of lines about how the universe extends through entropy and the atoms of the world continue on a trend of disorder and disappation. Growing through time means more experiences, more ups and more downs. More edges…
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Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
A look at Brian De Palma’s operatic and vibrant Phantom of the Paradise.
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Kino-Pravda Docs: #9 – Hale County This Morning, This Evening
A look at RaMell Ross’s reflective lake of human experience, Hale County This Morning, This Evening
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Kids (1995)
A spiralling look into Larry Clark’s seminal coming-of-age film Kids.
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Midsommar (2019)
Pagan cults in Horror filmmaking are one of those specific niches that very few people have nailed, there are only maybe two or three films which have remained staples in the canon whilst body horror or ghost stories have many variations. Pagan horror remains indebted to The Wicker Man (1973, Dir. Robin Hardy) and possibly Witchfinder…
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