Cinemascope
My movie viewing journal since May 2008
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Girlhood [2014]
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Girlhood – the third entry in Sciamma’s trilogy on coming-of-age and female identity (preceded by Water Lilies and Tomboy ), reductively...
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
We Need to Talk About Kevin [2011]
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Lynne Ramsay had made a crackling debut with the marvelous coming-of-age film Ratcatcher , and she’d followed that up with the curiously a...
Saturday, 12 September 2020
Certain Women [2016]
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With Certain Women Kelly Reichardt achieved something remarkable in how splendidly she touched upon a range of prescient themes – patriar...
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Waiting for the Carnival [2019]
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Toritama, located in northeast Brazil, was once – to borrow the title of an irresistible Bohumil Hrabal novel – a laid-back “little town whe...
Monday, 7 September 2020
Mistress America [2015]
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Baumbach’s Mistress America is considered a companion piece to his infectious and brilliant Frances Ha – both were, after all, co-writte...
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