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Favorite Films Of 2009
2009 has been one gold mine of a year for world cinema with so many great directors across the globe attempting, one last time, to register their name in the decades’ best list. Even if most of these...
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The Films Of Lisandro Alonso
Lisandro Alonso (1975-) Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Lisandro Alonso studied at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) and co-directed in 1995 with Catriel Vildosola his first short film Dos en la Vereda...
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Flashback #82
Historias Extraordinarias (2008) (aka Extraordinary Stories) Mariano Llinás Spanish “Thrilled, X thinks, “She’s done it. She managed to escape. The case is closed. She fooled them all.” Then adds with...
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Fragments From The Third World War
Until recently, film had been synonymous with spectacle or entertainment: in a word, it was one more consumer good. At best, films succeeded in bearing witness to the decay of bourgeois values and...
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Notes From Experimenta 2015
The ninth edition of Experimenta, the now-biennial experimental and avant-garde film festival of India helmed by Shai Heredia, took place between 25th and 29th of November in Bangalore. Besides the...
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018) + Zama (2017)
The first half of Happy as Lazzaro, like Alice Rohrwacher’s previous work The Wonders, offers itself as a portrait of a community. The film opens at night time in the imaginary village of Inviolata. A...
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2019 Roundup #9
Ridge (John Skoog) Swedish filmmaker John Skoog’s debut is set in his native Skåne County in the south of the country. Ridge revolves around a dairy farm in the countryside, but doesn’t follow a...
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2020 Roundup #5
Judy Versus Capitalism (Mike Hoolboom) Hoolboom’s hourlong documentary is a biography of Canadian feminist and activist Judy Rebick presented in the voice of the subject herself. Divided arbitrarily...
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Favourite Films of 2020
Is it possible to say anything about this world-historical year without some amount of preliminary hand-wringing? Culture writers, film critics included, appear to feel obliged to present their bona...
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