25 FIREMAN’S STREET
István Szabó’s agile camera is an uninvited guest peeking into the private and collective memories of the residents of an... View Article
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7TH HEAVEN
Before Douglas Sirk, there was Frank Borzage (1894-1962), an unabashed romantic and sentimentalist whose most beautiful achievement, 7th Heaven, is... View Article
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A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
If film clubs (for watching films) are sadly starting to be mostly curiosities of past times, then amateur film-making clubs... View Article
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A COOLER CLIMATE
In 1960, James Ivory visited Afghanistan to make a documentary he vaguely conceived as a pendant to a film on... View Article
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A GENTLE CREATURE
The film is named after Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Fantastic Story’ The Gentle Creature but, in terms of its plot, the only reference to... View Article
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A TIME OF ROSES
This fantasy film set in the future portrays above all else what tendencies the artists behind the film thought of... View Article
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ARMAGEDDON TIME
It is a relief to see an acting giant like Anthony Hopkins once again in a bullseye by a top... View Article
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BALTHAZAR
The cryptically self-evident Balthazar, dating fairly precisely back to the middle of the director’s active career, may well be Bresson’s... View Article
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BARABOO
The lives of six people intersect in a run-down motel in the peaceful village of Baraboo. Some have moved there... View Article
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BENEDICTION
This is not the first time that top English director Terence Davies (in Sodankylä 2010) has dealt with memories and... View Article
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