Women
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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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American Honey (2016)
A look out of the van window we’re all riding in, into American Honey, by Andrea Arnold.
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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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Possession (1985)
A manic insanic (satanic) stare into Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession.
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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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The Beguiled : Fading Magic
A look into the collapsing mysteries of Sofia Coppola’s film The Beguiled.
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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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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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