10.0
Onibaba
In my view it’s wrong to dismiss Onibaba as a horror film, or even call it a cult classic. It’s one of the all…
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6.0
Le Repos du Guerrier
Rarely seen, Le Repos du Guerrier directed by Roger Vadim stars Brigitte Bardot as Geneviève, a Parisian bourgeois who travels to Dijon to resolve an…
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8.0
Irma Vep
Irma Vep was directed by Olivier Assayas and starred his soon-to-be wife Maggie Cheung the Chinese movie star playing herself in a movie about making…
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9.0
The Passenger
Michelangelo Antonioni was influenced by architecture in many of his works but it’s the shape and outline of the human soul that he draws…
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8.0
Diva
Probably one of the best of the ‘cinema du look’, Jean-Jaques Beineix’s Diva set the tone for French cinema in the 1980s. Without Diva…
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Game of Thrones – the thirst for invented mythologies
The science fiction and comics convention TitanCon has just finished in Belfast and with the filming of Game of Thrones only a few miles…
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7.0
Fallen Angels
An alluring hybrid. A spectacular misfire. The sequences with the mysterious hit-man and his beautiful contact are some of the most striking and stylish…
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9.0
Blancanieves
Blancanieves is a Spanish reimagining of the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves story – but more than that it’s the reimagining of what…
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7.0
Like Someone In Love
‘In all my films not a single shot comes from cinema,’ says Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, director of the Tokyo set movie Like Someone…
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The Amrita Acharia interview
Just before she left for the Toronto International Film Festival, where her new movie Jeg er din (I am yours) is in competition, Game of…
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