Cinemascope
My movie viewing journal since May 2008
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw [2004]
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Cycling Chronicles perhaps remains among the most surprising departures in Kōji Wakamatsu’s career and indicative of his ability to defy pe...
Sunday, 15 August 2021
Once Upon a Time There Was One Country [1995]
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Kusturica’s riotously allegorical, unhinged, extravagant, sweeping, farcical, bitingly satirical and darkly ironic retelling of contempora...
Friday, 13 August 2021
Shoah [1985]
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Shoah is a staggering work and a monumental achievement in every conceivable sense. Around a dozen years in the making and clocking at 9 ...
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
The Wind Will Carry Us [1999]
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Kiarostami achieved a sublime confluence of austerely realist portrayal and metaphysical meditations – intermingling narrative build-ups wit...
Saturday, 7 August 2021
Through the Olive Trees [1994]
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Cinema doesn’t get any more quintessentially metatextual or delightfully self-reflexive than Through the Olive Trees , the enchanting fina...
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