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Blu Review 012-monica-vitti-and-michelangelo-antonioni-theredlist
10.0
135

Michelangelo Antonioni’s cinema is not only the cinema of class-afforded ennui, of works that see languor as a byproduct of privilege, an offshoot of life stripped of its most innate anxieties, but also the cinema of time, of its erosive effects on memory and other such mental constructs, which, gossamer in nature ….

AFI FILM FEST 2014 Black-Coal_-Thin-Ice_web_LIAO_Fan_01
8.7
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At one point in Diao Yinan’s third feature film, the camera presents the point of view of a car that is reaching the end of a tunnel. The year is 1999. A thick snow covers the road. To the right of the lane are a parked motorcycle and a man slumped on a block of cement. The camera with the car’s point of view passes him by.

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5.5
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An uneasy weave of drama and thriller, Before I Go To Sleep follows a very Memento-esque journey of one amnesiac’s attempts to piece together information about their traumatic past. The hook here is that the amnesiac is a housewife and, similar to Memento, the new memories she makes in her sleuthing don’t last very …

Film Festival candlestick_2
6.5
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So says George Orwell in his 1946 essay “Decline of the English Murder”, a text invoked by IndieCork programmer Mick Hannigan as he introduced Christopher Presswell’s Candlestick, a film very much intent on constituting a resurrection. Not so much…

Film Festival InherentViceFullSize
8.9
269

Sometimes life hits you with a bunch of complicated shit when all you really want to do is spin a Neil Young record and roll another number. Inherent Vice is a film about that feeling. It’s about other things, too: capitalism, counterculture, California. It’s also about how much Paul Thomas Anderson, the film’s director …

Film Festival 10b03ff3a3475f5f33e6792b52ff37b6
8.1
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The sophisticated script of Gosford Park (2001) involves more than two dozen characters, each given the respect and screen-time deserving of a lead. Altman presents the viewer with a myriad of expressions, interactions, and gesticulations, many of which increase in significance retroactively. One disregards the initial …

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