Film
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One Battle After Another (in VistaVision)
He’s back. Cinema’s greatest wunderkind Paul Thomas Anderson brings us into a world filled with paranoia, politics and power. Family structures collide with towers of social inferno, grinding the souls of America into fine sand. Keep your head down out here, there’s crazies on the loose. And you’re too old and tired to maintain their…
Ari Aster, Benicio Del Toro, Chase Infiniti, Cinema, Eddington, Film, Film Pravda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gilles Pontecorvo, History, Ideas, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, One Battle After Another, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philosophy, Rebellion, reviews, Teyana Taylor, The Battle of Algiers, Truth, VistaVision
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Back to Back Featurette: Sinners (2025) & Coda : Death of Michael Corleone (2020)
A quick look at some more recent films, to shake off the winter blues. Includes Ryan Coogler’s new project Sinners, and Francis Ford Coppola’s reworking of his 1990, much maligned Part 3 of his Godfather Trilogy.
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Nosferatu: 4X (1922, 1979, 2023, 2024)
A look throughout 102 years of film history, and Nosferatu’s presence in cinema, from the eerie silent original right up to the most recent adaptation.
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Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)
A look into the reconstructed alternate vision of Caligula, in the The Ultimate Cut.
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Asteroid City (2023) + Exhibition Notes
An open eye towards Wes Anderson’s latest adventure, Asteroid City.
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Woodstock & Cinema: Scrapbook Thoughts (Vol. 1)
In April 2022, I decided to embark on a journey to watch the cinematic material currently related to Woodstock Festival (founded by Woodstock Ventures), specifically the first event in August 15th, 16,th, 17th and 18th August 1969, Bethel NY. This is a scrapbook of cinema thoughts and understanding related to all materials Woodstock; documentaries, feature…
A Walk on the Moon (1999), Ang Lee, Barak Goodman, Bob Smeaton, Bruce Beresford, Chris Hegedus, Cinema, Creating Woodstock (2019), D.A Pennebaker, David McDonald, Documentary, Erez Laufer, Film, Film Pravda, History, Ideas, Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock (2014), Leslie Bloom, Michael Wadleigh, Mick Richards, Peace Love & Misunderstanding (2011), Taking Woodstock (2009), Truth, Woodstock, Woodstock (1970), Woodstock Diary (1994), Woodstock or Bust (2018), Woodstock Revisited (2009), Woodstock: 3 Days That Defined A Generation (2019)
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The French Dispatch + Exhibition Review
Opening the box on Wes Anderson’s stuffed trunk of papers, The French Dispatch (plus review of the exhibition for it!)
180 The Strand, Adrien Brody, Art, Benicio Del Toro, Bill Murray, Cinema, Comedy, Delight, Edward Norton, Film, Film Pravda, Frances McDormand, Henry Winkler, History, Ideas, Illusion, Jason Schwartzmann, Jeffery Wright, Léa Seydoux, Love, Magazines, Magic, Owen Wilson, Publishing, Robert D. Yeoman, Saoirse Ronan, The French Dispatch, The French Dispatch Exhibition, The New Yorker, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Wes Anderson, Writing
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From Dune (1965) to Dune (2021)
From Dune (1965) to Dune (2021) : From Visions to Villeneuve – a look at journey of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece onto cinema.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Cinema, Cryo Entertainment, David Lynch, Denis Villeneuve, Documentary, Dune, Dune (1965), Dune (1984), Dune (2021), Film, Film Pravda, Frank Herbert, Frank Pavich, History, Ideas, Location, Michel Séydoux, Paul Atreides, Philosophy, Raefaella Di Laurentiis, Ridley Scott, Terrain, Truth
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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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