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10.0
Three Colours: Blue
First released in 1993 this is a good time to revisit Krzysztof Kieślowski’s European masterpiece after so many years. Three Colours: Blue was the first…
8.0
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express released in 1994 is long over due a rerelease and reevaluation. The seeds of the Hong Kong director’s later masterpiece…
7.0
Nocturnal Animals
In Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals there’s a ‘real world’ story of art gallery owner Susan Morrow (played by Amy Adams) who receives a manuscript…
9.0
The Love Witch
The Love Witch directed by Anna Biller is certain to become a cult classic. Imagine the Sharon Tate-era Valley Of the Dolls, shaken and…
8.0
De Palma
De Palma is a documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow featuring director Brian De Palma talking directly to camera about his life and…
7.0
1900 (Novecento)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 ((Novecento in Italian) is a five-hour epic historical drama telling the story of the director’s ancestral region of Emilia in Italy…
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10.0
Three Colours: Blue
First released in 1993 this is a good time to revisit Krzysztof Kieślowski’s European masterpiece after so many years. Three Colours: Blue was the first…
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8.0
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express released in 1994 is long over due a rerelease and reevaluation. The seeds of the Hong Kong director’s later masterpiece…
Read More
7.0
Nocturnal Animals
In Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals there’s a ‘real world’ story of art gallery owner Susan Morrow (played by Amy Adams) who receives a manuscript…
Read More
9.0
The Love Witch
The Love Witch directed by Anna Biller is certain to become a cult classic. Imagine the Sharon Tate-era Valley Of the Dolls, shaken and…
Read More
8.0
De Palma
De Palma is a documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow featuring director Brian De Palma talking directly to camera about his life and…
Read More
7.0
1900 (Novecento)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 ((Novecento in Italian) is a five-hour epic historical drama telling the story of the director’s ancestral region of Emilia in Italy…
Read More
8.0
Arrival
Arrival starts with a spoiler. You don’t realise it’s a spoiler until the closing scenes of the movie, but rather than the ‘flashback’ it…
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7.0
Malena
Malena, released in 2000, was both written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore who also directed the academy award-winning Cinema Paradiso. Although this film contains…
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8.0
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut is a documentary directed by Kent Jones about François Truffaut’s book on Alfred Hitchcock also called Hitchcock/Truffaut. The book is an extremely well…
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10.0
Under The Skin
Constraints and limited resources can be a virtue in cinema as in all creative projects. Under The Skin, which has just been released on…
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10.0
Red Desert
Red Desert, released in 1964, saw Michelangelo Antonioni invent a new type of expressionist colour cinematography. Along with his director of photography Carlo Di…
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9.0
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Black Coal, Thin Ice from Chinese writer-director Diao Yi’nan won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014. This movie is a…
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