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Category Archives: Saturday Matinee
Saturday Matinee: Melancholia
Melancholia Review By Ewan Gleadow Source: Cult Following Uncomfortable productions are the forte of director Lars von Trier. The allusions to and disquieting effect of his features and their focus is something to be realised in the prime of his … Continue reading
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Tagged John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling, Kirsten Dunst, Cult Film, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård
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Saturday Matinee: Lessons of Darkness
By Martin Purvis Source: The Film Sufi Werner Herzog’s documentary films lie at an extreme distance from the Anglo-American tradition of documentary filmmaking. Part of that distance can be linked to the distinction between two fundamental stances towards the depiction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Cult Film, Documentary, Gulf War, Lessons of Darkness, Science fiction, Werner Herzog
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Two for Tuesday
Mona Lisa Twins Muse
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Compliance, I Bought Myself a Politician, Mona Lisa Twins, Muse
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Saturday Matinee: The Bear
Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Source: Spirituality & Practice The Bear is an unusually involving story about animals that will give you a fresh perspective on their world. It is not a documentary nor is it the kind … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Environment, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cult Film, French Cinema, James Oliver Curwood, Jean-Jacques Annaud, The Bear
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Saturday Matinee: Holy Motors
What do limos know that we don’t? By Roger Ebert Source: RogerEbert.com We know he lives in movies because we literally find him in one. Leos Carax’s much-debated “Holy Motors” begins with a man (Carax himself) asleep in bed, then … Continue reading
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Tagged Cult Film, Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, French Cinema, Holy Motors, Leos Carax
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Saturday Matinee: Enter the Void
Enter the Void and the Inhuman Condition By Matt Cipolla Source: RogerEbert.com “I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear … I was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, Spirituality, Video
Tagged Cult Film, Death, Enter the Void, Gaspar Noé, Philosophy, spirituality
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Saturday Matinee: 88
A sinister Big Conspiracy backs a presidential candidate in 2024 –“88” By Roger Moore Source: Movie Nation In Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK,” Donald Sutherland played a character only identified as “X,” the “explainer” who downloads most of the suspect … Continue reading
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Tagged 88, conspiracy film, Emrose, William Fichtner
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Saturday Matinee: Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
By Teresa Viera Source: Cineuropa Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes [+], Tiago Guedes’ fourth feature, premiered in Portuguese cinemas on 21 November. A cinematic adaptation of Tiago Rodrigues’ play of the same name, it portrays the transition from childhood to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cult Film, Maria Abreu, Polish Cinema, Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes, Tiago Guedes
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