film review: Samsara (2012)

film review: Samsara (2012)

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I wished I’d seen Baraka. Because I think it might have made this film easier to review. Samsara is a stunning piece of work. The film takes us across a world damaged by disaster, mechanised by industry, shrouded in ritual and punctuated by beauty. This world.

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film review: Shame (2011)

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Shame. In more ways than one. Man of the moment, Michael Fassbender, plays Brandon Sullivan, an Irish-American business suit type with an addiction to porn and sex with anonymous strangers. His life is going… relatively well really. His job hasn’t yet cottoned on to his problem – or at the least he must be making […]

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film review: Antichrist (2009)

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At this stage any film reviewer worth their salt has seen Lars von Trier‘s latest film, Antichrist. The controversy that ensued after its screening at Cannes

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film review: I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay (2006)

film review: I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay (2006)

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Park Chan-wook could hardly be described as a household name in the western world however, his films probably are far better known than those of some other Asian directors.

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film review: Control (2007)

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Ian Curtis died on May 18th, 1980. He was 23 years old. Control is a biographical film based on the 1995 memoirs of Ian Curtis’s wife, Deborah Curtis, entitled Touching From A Distance. It is directed by acclaimed photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn. Shot in colour than transferred to black and white, Control […]

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