Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Saturday, 13 June 2026

Dead Man's Wire [2025]

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 Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire was filled with absorbing zeitgeist, gritty 1970s vitality, sly humour and subversive “state of the nation”...
Thursday, 11 June 2026

Bugonia [2025]

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 Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist and unhinged black comedies have toggled between relatively minimalist palettes and unreservedly maximalist one...
Tuesday, 9 June 2026

Dracula [2025]

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 Romanian provocateur and lampooner Radu Jude’s Dracula – his second outing in 2025 after Kontinental '25 , both shot using iPhones – w...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Peter Hujar's Day [2025]

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 In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz – who loved harnessing casual conversations and gossips – invited celebrated photographer and her friend ...
Saturday, 30 May 2026

It Was Just an Accident [2025]

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 Jafar Panahi’s blistering work It was Just an Accident was defined as much by the edgy specificity of its milieu as by the stirring univer...
Monday, 25 May 2026

Father Mother Sister Brother [2025]

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  Father Mother Sister Brother – Jim Jarmusch’s fourth anthology film, a form that he keeps returning to – was interwoven with his love for...
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Portobello [2025]

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 It’s quite astonishing that Marco Bellochhio, a (hopefully) soon-to-be nonagenarian who made his directorial debut six decades back, is sti...
Sunday, 17 May 2026

Young Mothers [2025]

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 Teenagers struggling to break free from the vicious cycle of marginalized existence, abandonment and abuse – a recurrent theme in the Darde...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

Kontinental '25 [2025]

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 Coming on the back of his two provocative and coruscating stunners Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End ...
Friday, 8 May 2026

Resurrection [2025]

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Resurrection – Bi Gan’s return 7 years after his hypnotic last film Long Day’s Journey into Night – was as much a work of epic thematic pr...
Saturday, 2 May 2026

The Mastermind [2025]

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 Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist “anti-genre” exercises – subversion of genre trappings, prioritizing inaction over actions, and leaving cine-g...
Wednesday, 29 April 2026

The Voice of Hind Rajab [2025]

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 On 29 th January 2024, Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, was killed in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces. Six of her family memb...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

Sirāt [2025]

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 Óliver Laxe’s existential road movie Sirāt was both an unconventional film and a film made unconventionally. Combining the hellish journey...
Thursday, 16 April 2026

No Other Choice [2025]

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 Park Chan-wook’s filmography is replete with wickedly feral killers who complement method with madness. No Other Choice ’s anti-hero, conv...
Sunday, 12 April 2026

The Secret Agent [2025]

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  The Secret Agent is intimately linked to Kleber Mendonça Filho’s filmography – fondness for B-movies and old theatres, novelistic approac...
Monday, 6 April 2026

Miroirs No. 3 [2025]

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  Miroirs No. 3 , with its beguiling set-up, eerily tranquil tone with an underlying disquietude that gently builds, disarming and economica...
Friday, 3 April 2026

The Conversation [1974]

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 Right from its bravura opening sequence – shot in grainy analogue and single-take using a telephoto lens which slowly zooms in from high-up...
Sunday, 29 March 2026

I… for Icarus [1979]

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 JFK’s assassination has formed a recurring thread within political conspiracy thrillers, while among French left-wing political cinema in p...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

Umberto D. [1952]

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  Umberto D. – Italian Neorealist movement’s final definitive film and Vittorio De Sica’s personal favourite – alternated between extreme d...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) [1948]

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 Visconti pioneered neorealist cinema and Rossellini took it to exalted heights; but it was Vittorio De Sica who gave this profoundly influe...
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