Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter EYE OF THE TYPIST Starring Belgian actress Déborah François (L’Enfant), alongside Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), Populaire tells the charming and romantic tale of Rose, a young woman from “nowheresville” who under the tutelage of her new boss Louis attempts to become the fastest touch-typist in the […]
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Read MoreWords: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Pieced together solely from footage sourced from the Soviet film archives, Sergei Loznitsa’s collection of documentaries, Blockade, Revue, and Landscape, provides a largely unseen portrait of Russia’s tumultuous and often deeply tragic journey through the 20th Century. Retrospectively the key events which have marked the vast […]
Read MoreThey Came From Underground Worms: wriggly, slimy, gross, all acceptable adjectives when describing those bizarre non-arthropod invertebrate animals that slowly pulsate through the ground upon which we walk… but scary? Scary just doesn’t cut it when it comes to fleshy entities we accidentally step upon on a dark, sodden winter morning. Squirm, the debut feature […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter I KNOW WHAT BOYS LIKE Originally released in 1982 alongside Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Last American Virgin is often overlooked when it comes to benchmark releases of the coming-of-age comedy variety. This is primarily due to the enduring popularity and influence of Fast Times’ Cameron Crowe penned script, […]
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GIRL ON FILM After fleeing Catalonia amidst the chaos of The Spanish Civil War, Mercè finds herself sequestered from Franco’s army upon the streets of a quaint French town – which itself exists under the daily pervasiveness of Nazi rule. As the beautiful refugee goes about life, washing her feet in the town square fountain […]
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