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Entries from June 25th, 2010

Film Review: When You’re Strange (2009)

June 25th, 2010 No Comments

A medley of grainy super-8 footage, Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange strips The Doors down to no-holds-barred exuberance. Or is it just wallowing in the mire? When You’re Strange Shaman’s Blues by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers In 27 short years, Jim Morrison managed to construct a vast iconography of photos and video footage, his pouty stare engraved into [...]

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Film Review: Wild Grass / Les Herbes Folles (2009)

June 20th, 2010 No Comments

Alain Resnais, the great grand-monsieur of French cinema is de retour with Wild Grass a complex, lilting tale of the power of chance. Wild Grass The Grass is Always Greener by Laura Bennett CAUTION: Here be spoilers An adaptation of the 1996 novel L’incident by Christian Gailly, Alain Resnais’ return to form stars his long-term [...]

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Film Review: Villa Amalia (2009)

June 18th, 2010 No Comments

Cheerfully nihilistic, Benoît Jacquot’s Villa Amalia stars Isabelle Huppert as a pianist reinventing her life from scratch on the coast of Naples. O sole mio. Villa Amalia Sweet Nothings by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers Isabelle Huppert is as tough as nails; the perfect choice for a heroine combining glamour, guts and grit. So it’s [...]

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Film Review: Women Without Men (2009)

June 7th, 2010 No Comments

Iranian visual artist, Shirin Neshat’s directorial debut focuses on the lives of four women set against a backdrop of political turmoil in 1950s Iran. Women Without Men A Woman’s Work by Laura Bennett CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Never afraid to shy away from the often incendiary issue of the role of women in modern-day Islamic society, Shirin [...]

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Film Review: The Killer Inside Me (2010)

June 3rd, 2010 No Comments

Violent and misogynistic, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me adapts Jim Thompson’s noir novel to expose ’50s America’s darker side. It’s pulp friction. The Killer Inside Me In The Mood For Killing by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. From its Eames-style geometric opening titles, there’s a patina of Bakelite and melamine that seeps through Michael [...]

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Film Review: The Girl On The Train / La Fille du RER (2009)

June 2nd, 2010 No Comments

  The Girl On The Train André Techiné’s The Girl On The Train is not so much an exploration of modern antisemitism as a cumulation of our collective fears. Just mind the moral gap. Strangers On A Train by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. Almost an octogenarian, it’s astounding that André Techiné is so good at portraying [...]

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