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Montage in This Is England ’86 (2010)
This is a post in celebration of Shane Meadows’ This Is England ’86. It finished earlier tonight in terrific style.
READ MOREKurosawa’s Rhythm in ‘Throne of Blood’ (1957)
The thing that’s so impressive about Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (1957) is that he takes an already great story and produces a new work of art that is entirely his own. In his interpretation of Macbeth (1606), Kurosawa is not afraid to alter Shakespeare’s…
READ MORESome Thoughts on ‘Brazil’ (1985)
Something’s not right in Brazil (1985). While the quirky characters that fill Terry Gilliam’s oddly backwards future-scape cling to an appearance of efficient normality, these same people repeatedly reveal that they can’t be put in a numbered box and ticked off.
READ MOREI wonder if it really happened?
It’s difficult to decide which film(s) to discuss in a first post. It is, in a sense, like staring at a blank piece of paper. It feels like the first mark has to be a good one.
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