Raptures
Jon Blåhed, who has already made a name for himself as a director depicting his native northern Sweden, takes an... View Article
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Rosso
Excepting maybe Renny Harlin and Dome Karukoski, Mika Kaurismäki is Finland’s most international film director. Even his first feature-length film... View Article
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Seafarers
The seafaring story about the travails of 17-year-old Jalmar ”Jallu” Yrjänen deepens into a tragic reminder of the finite nature... View Article
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Sebastian
A writer must live the content of their work, not just write it. This is the protagonist’s view in the... View Article
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Sodankylä Forever: Drama of Light
Although there are hundreds if not thousands of film festivals in the world, Peter von Bagh’s documentary about the first... View Article
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Stranger by the Lake
Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake is one of the best films of 2013, even though its distribution has mostly been... View Article
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That Old Dream That Moves
At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 Jean-Luc Godard praised three directors: Samira Makhmalbaf, Aki Kaurismäki, and Alain Guiraudie, whose... View Article
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The Cardinal and the Corpse & Asylum
The 1980s saw a massive resurgence in London literature.
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The Carfax Fragment & Content
It's curious that the short film The Carfax Fragment is almost never shown, considering that it investigates Purfleet where Dracula bought the manor from whence he set out to spread terror and unleash desires.
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The Conformist
Dominique Sanda played key roles in two of Bernardo Bertolucci's films in his 1970s peak period.
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