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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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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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War and Peace (Voyna i Mir – 1966-7)
A titanic grappling with Sergei Bondarchuk’s masterpiece of 431 minutes, War and Peace.
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Girlhood (2014)
Céline Sciamma made Girlhood in a recent, but rich tradition of French films concerned with the reality of life in some of France’s sharper corners. It was my experience with La Haine (1995, Dir. Matthieu Kassovitz) in a French class at age 11 which first exposed my mind to the soulful, harsh worlds of French…
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The Handmaiden: Shifting Exotic Sands
A look into those obsessed with looking in Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden.
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Lost In Translation – Translation Errors
A look at the literal and metaphorical translation errors in Lost In Translation and its reception.
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Julieta – Melodrama, Not Mellow Women
Julieta is a deep return into a kind of cinema that has been in the shadows in recent years. It’s got such a deep focus on Julieta herself, her experience in the world and how she reacts to the trials of love, family and the pleasures and pain incurred by both, that it functions in…
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