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Sunday, September 26, 2021

The Films of Kôji Fukada

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Hospitalité (2010) Harmonium (2016) A Girl Missing (2019) The Real Thing (2020) Harmonium is Kôji Fukada’s fifth film but one that thrust h...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Just Like That

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Just like That (2019, India,  Kislay) The mother is a revered character in Indian cinema and society (‘Mother India’), someone who is selfle...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Fantasia 2021

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Fantasia 2021 runs from Aug 5 - 25th in a hybrid format. Unlike last year’s virtual edition, this year’s edition is showing films in cinema...
Sunday, August 08, 2021

The films of Ulrich Köhler

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Bungalow (2002) Sleeping Sickness (2011) In My Room (2018) Unlike previously, I started in the middle. The first Ulrich Köhler feature I saw...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Messi finally wins Copa América

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Messi's Copa América win.  Buda Mendes/Getty Images It was a tournament that felt unnecessary. It was the 4th Copa América in just 6 yea...
Sunday, July 04, 2021

I Want Your Tree...your tree also..I want all your trees

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Taming the Garden (2021, Georgia/Switzerland, Salomé Jashi) “A picture is worth a thousand words”.   In this case, the picture left me speec...
Friday, July 02, 2021

Lakbayan to Genus Pan

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Genus Pan (2020, Philippines, Lav Diaz) Genus Pan , Courtesy of Sine Olivia Pilipinas As with any Lav Diaz film, the running time is often m...

Roy Andersson 2.5

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About Endlessness (2019, Swedish co-production) 10 years ago, I laughed in delight while watching Roy Andersson’s double-bill of Songs from ...
Thursday, July 01, 2021

Bruno Dumont 2.0

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Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, 4 episode TV Mini-series) For a change, I started at the beginning. I was fortunate enough to witness B...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Copa Libertadores vs Champions League

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The swift unraveling of the European Super League doesn’t mean that things will become better in the Champions League. It still appears that...