STREETS OF RAGE Those familiar with Walter Hill’s filmography will also be aware of how the director and screenwriter became an integral part of late seventies, early eighties cult moviemaking. With titles such as The Driver (1978), The Warriors (1979) and Southern Comfort (1981) Hill’s work has grasped hold of generations of viewers with its […]
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TEACHER STUDENT RELATIONSHIP Idealistic Haewon (Jung Eunchae) desperately wants to abscond from a life in which she is simply “just living” day to day in her isolated village on the edge of Seoul, South Korea. Following her mother’s move to Canada in the hope of starting anew, Haewon is left seemingly stranded and alone – […]
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ENJOY THE SILENCE Following a self-imposed exile of nearly fifteen-years, sound-recordist Eoghan leaves Berlin and returns to his native land of Donegal, Ireland. Intending to record the naturalistic melodies of his desolate yet wildly beautiful homeland, Eoghan embarks upon a journey which draws him into a series of surreal and revealing interactions with the land’s […]
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KISS KISS BANG BANG Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez carved careers out of their bloody homages to late 60’s and early 70’s cinema, as films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992) and From Dawn Till Dusk (1996), successfully balanced elements of contemporary horror and action cinema with subversive narratives and good ol’ blood splattered violence. Gradually […]
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THE POETICS OF SPACE Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s last film, 2010’s Copie Conforme (Certified Copy) earned Juliette Binoche a Best Actress Award at the year’s Cannes Film Festival for her depiction of a French antiques dealer thrust into a Tuscan romance. Once again Kiarostami’s narrative focuses upon a beguiling female lead and her chance interactions […]
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ENGLISH BEAUTY Creatively unfulfilled and longing to return to The City that Never Sleeps, middle-aged husband, father, and high-school music teacher, Keith Reynolds (Guy Pearce) spends his days growing ever more disillusioned with his trite suburban lifestyle in upstate New York. Brandishing a salt and pepper beard that harkens back to his days as a […]
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