Cinemascope
My movie viewing journal since May 2008
Saturday, 10 July 2021
Chile, Obstinate Memory [1997]
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Guzmán marked his profoundly complex homecoming, after 23 years in exile, with Chile, Obstinate Memory . Made as a loosely connected seque...
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
The Battle of Chile [1975, 1976, 1979]
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Patricio Guzmán’s monumental documentary trilogy The Battle of Chile – moulded with electrifying vitality, revolutionary fervor and polit...
Sunday, 4 July 2021
Alexander the Great [1980]
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Alexander the Great , with its sprawling tapestry and intricate thematic examinations – beautiful but fragile dream of utopia, transition ...
Friday, 2 July 2021
Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel [2003]
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The 1947 UN Resolution 181 recommended partitioning of Palestine into two unequal halves, with 56% allocated to the Jewish minority and 43...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
The Great Indian Kitchen [2021]
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The most impish joke – and a darkly ironic one too – that Keralite filmmaker Jeo Baby pulled on unwitting viewers was cannily naming this ...
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