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How Can I Just Pick 10? or My Favorite Movies Released in 2015
One of the best films to screen in 2015 will not be released to cinemas until next year. The Witch Robert Eggers, 2015 Yes, I know there are more than a couple of movies coming out before the...
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Completely Out of Control! or Eyes of Laura Mars
One can’t help but wonder what might have happened if John Carpenter had filmed his own script of Eyes of Laura Mars. It is a rather silly question as he did not film his own script. Instead that duty...
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Pushing Against Fear or Dealing With Identity Disordered
People always ask me why I like such dark and often surreal movies. For me, these strange cinematic explorations into the darkest corners of the human mind act as a sort cathartic entertainment. But...
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A Woman Who Would Dominate A Male Chauvinist or Maîtresse
Barbet Schroeder has always been interested in human obsessions and the dynamic of relationships, but when he got the idea to make Maîtresse he added something rather strange: Comedy. If you have never...
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Editing To Mimic The Mind’s Eye Vision
At this moment, it was still very much style over substance. But this would soon change.PerformanceDonald Cammell / Nicolas Roeg, 1970Cinematography | Nicolas Roeg Having the opportunity to interview...
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The Meta-Film Eats Itself or Thoughts On Joe Swanberg’s Full Moon Trilogy
I really do not care for the term “Mumblecore.” This term feels like an insult to the films and artists who have emerged within this assigned “genre.” Labels are always problematic. But we humans love...
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Notorious! Scandalous! Wild! or Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion and Salome’s...
Uh, oh…Crimes of PassionKen Russell, 1984Cinematography | Dick Bush I have always hated being told what to do. I prefer to be the boss. My blog is my own as and so are the opinions expressed within it....
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Above, Under, Near, Inside, Outside and Lost in the Surroundings
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true...
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Neon-Noir Or Reflecting Cultural Commentary or Neon Space in Film
Master cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, was asked to comment on the way neon lights and lighting have impacted his work. As as part of the online exhibition from Mobile M+ and NEONSIGNS.HK, he...
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Where Stars Make Dreams And Dreams Make Stars or David Lynch’s Inland Empire
Laura Dern as a woman in deep trouble…INLAND EMPIREDavid Lynch, 2006 There is an early key scene in David Lynch’s Inland Empire. It is between one of several characters played by Laura Dern and another...
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