Stories
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Parasite (2019)
A look at how Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite looks at us.
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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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City of God (2003)
A reckoning with the eyes and heart of Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s City of God.
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Ain’t It Funny: The Producers (1967) and The Producers (2005)
An amusing gaze into the lunacy of Broadway in The Producers, both current film versions.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
A look at the dark and the light in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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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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Something Old, Something New: Beauty and the Beast and Cinematic Adaptations (1946,2014,2017)
A look at 3 adaptations of Beauty and the Beast, and what makes them work (or don’t work).
Film Pravda 