Category: Film writing

• Review: Reel Madness Film Festival 2003

  [Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 2003.] Let There Be Light (USA 1946) Directed by John Huston A Page of Madness (Japan 1926) Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Completely Cuckoo (USA 1988) Directed by Charles Kiselyak “This strand of the festival focuses on the way in which film has been used to address the treatment and perception of those…

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  18/12/2003

  Film writing

• Review: Don’t Look Now (dir Nicholas Roeg)

  [Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 2001] Perhaps the most succinctly insightful critical response to the work of Nicolas Roeg might be Michael Clark’s portrait of the British director in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Entitled “al-jebr”, this Arabic word means “the bringing together of broken parts”. There are certain keywords that recur in…

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  31/12/2002

  Film writing

  cinema, Daphne Du Maurier, Don’t Look Now, Kamera, Nicholas Roeg

• Review: Fucking Åmål (dir Lukas Moodysson)

  [Cross-posted from Kamera, and written a long long time ago.] Fucking Åmål, retitled Show Me Love for more sensitive markets such as the USA and the UK, is Swedish poet and novelist Lukas Moodysson’s debut feature, and already the biggest Swedish film of all time. The film follows Agnes (Rebecca Liljeberg) who, even after 18 months in…

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  31/12/2002

  Film writing

  cinema, Fucking Amal, Kamera, Lukas Moodysson, Sweden

• Review: Cinema Paradiso (dir Giuseppe Tornatore)

  [Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 1999/2000.] Showing in its original version rather than the longer “director’s” cut (widely held to be a more balanced and complex film), the tenth anniversary re-release of this 1989 winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes, and the Best Foreign Language Film at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes, offers…

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  31/12/2002

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  cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, Kamera

• Review: Y tu mamá también (dir Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)

  [Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 2001] Not overly sophisticated (thank God), indeed somewhat crude at points (excellent), and rather like a mixture between The Sure Thing, Beavis and Butthead and Shadowlands (just kidding), Y tu mamá también is extremely good-natured, thoughtful and enjoyable – far more so than the witless trailer (which makes it out to be a teen gross-out comedy)…

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  31/12/2002

  Film writing

  Alfonso Cuaron, cinema, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kamera, mexico