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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 Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Cult Film, John Hurt, Kirsten Dunst, Lars von Trier, Melancholia
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Saturday Matinee: 1984
A scary reminder of how easily totalitarian ideas and ideals crop up in societies and take fierce hold. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Source: Spirituality & Practice Winston Smith lives on Airstrip One, a part of Oceania. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged 1984, cult fim, Dystopia, George Orwell, John Hurt, Michael Radford, Richard Burton, Science fiction, Suzanna Hamilton
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Saturday Matinee: The Osterman Weekend
Ahead of its time – brilliant, entertaining, insightful Review By nfaust1 Source: IMDB When this movie originally came out, five years after CONVOY (a muddled, but in many ways spectacular entertainment), many critics moaned that Peckinpah had yet again displayed … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Dennis Hopper, John Hurt, Robert Ludlum, Rutger Hauer, Sam Peckinpah, The Osterman Weekend
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Saturday Matinee: Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer (2013) is a film adaptation of French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette directed by Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Mother, Haemoo). The majority of the movie takes place on a perpetually globe-spanning train containing the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Film, Geoengineering, media, Saturday Matinee, Social Engineering, society, Video
Tagged Bong Joon-ho, Chris Evans, Dystopia, Ed Harris, geoengineering, Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Science fiction, Snowpiercer, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton
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Saturday Matinee: The Plague Dogs
Many of us may have read the Richard Adams book “Watership Down” or have seen the film adaptation, but less known is the film version of his even darker follow-up, “The Plague Dogs” (1982). Like a Disney film, it features … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, culture, Environment, Film, Saturday Matinee, Science, society, Video
Tagged Alan Price, animation, Cartoon, Children's Film, John Hurt, Plague Dogs, Richard Adams, vivisection, Watership Down
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