Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter A deeply unsettling atmosphere radiates from the visuals of Tsai Ming Ling’s critically lauded 2013 Taiwanese-French drama, Stray Dogs. It is as though a set of gnarled fingers are slowly reaching out from the screen, inching ever closer and forming a deathly grasp around your neck. The picture’s opening scene depicts a […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter PAGES OF RAGE The ferocious thrill-ride that is Mad Max: Fury Road has quickly set itself aside as a contemporary action cinema classic, and yet for a movie packed with operatic violence and fiery bombast, Max’s latest trip to the wastelands is also a surprisingly progressive and thoughtful race to freedom. The combination of […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter & Louise Marsh Twitter: @BrodyRossiter WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve only watched one Harry Potter movie. It was fourteen years ago and to be perfectly honest I have very little recollection of the events that unfolded onscreen. And though I may have intermittently flicked through his novelistic […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter ERIC’S BEEN BLOWN UP Britain has a rich and long history of producing some of cinema’s most memorable and characterful crime films. From Mike Hodges’ Get Carter to Guy Ritchie’s Snatch, those quintessentially British quirks and traits – whether it is a regional accent or a blackly comic sense of […]
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Over the next few weeks, FILM IN WORDS will be taking a special look at the 2015 UK Green film festival, showcasing and reviewing this year’s stellar lineup of thematically potent, visually arresting and environmentally focused films. We hope you can come along for the ride…
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Over the next few weeks, FILM IN WORDS will be taking a special look at the 2015 UK Green film festival, showcasing and reviewing this year’s stellar lineup of thematically potent, visually arresting and environmentally focused films. We hope you can come along for the ride…
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