With geriatric sex and teen suicide, Lee Changdong’s Poetry is no sensationalist exploitation drama, but a dark, tender coming of (old) age.
Poetry
More Than Words by Mark Wilshin
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Parental guilt seems to be de rigueur these days. With Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin and Susanne Bier’s In A Better World both [...]
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Film Review: Poetry (2010)
July 28th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: 2010 · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · In A Better World · Korea · Lee Changdong · London Film Festival · Lynne Ramsay · Mark Wilshin · Poetry · Reviews · Shohei Imamura · Susanne Bier · The Eel · Tran Anh Hung · We Need To Talk About Kevin · Wilshin · Wong Kar Wai · Yoon Jeong-hee
Film Review: Les Amours Imaginaires / Heartbeats (2010)
May 27th, 2011 1 Comment
Navigating the ménage à trois with elegant indifference, Xavier Dolan’s Les Amours Imaginaires is a glorious feast of colour and rancid joie de vivre. Who said anything about subtle?
Les Amours Imaginaires
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Mark Wilshin
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If Xavier Dolan’s debut film J’ai Tué Ma Mère was a screeching queer rendition of Les [...]
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Ten in 2010
January 6th, 2011 No Comments
And so, like a wet goat, another year is born; an ideal opportunity to reflect on 2010 and make widescreen resolutions for 2011. You may already be wading through Top Tens up and down the cyberland, but here’s my own little twist ending to the cinematic story of 2010, namely a countdown of the scenes [...]
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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
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From its Eames-style geometric opening titles, there’s a patina of Bakelite and melamine that seeps through Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside [...]
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Festival: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2010
April 7th, 2010 No Comments
From forbidden love to lovesick confusion, London’s 24th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival explores the boundaries of love, sexuality and gender. It’s a fine bromance!
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Waving, Not Drowning by Mark Wilshin
With its fabulously glittery pink poster and rainbow’s ark of animals, London’s 24th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is out and proud. And it’s nice for [...]
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