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Review of To Be Number One (1991)

By Mattias E (160) on 07 Oct 2008

Pretty much standard stuff from back in the day. And in this case that's a good thing…

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Review of Bound (1996)

By Mattias E (160) on 06 Oct 2008

To me, the notion of lesbian sex scenes directed by two white guys with a Marvel Comics-sense of femininity is mildly upsetting…

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Review of Adoration ou la transsubstantiation (1987)

By Mattias E (160) on 06 Oct 2008

Egoyan has such a distinctive, provoking and symphonic style. An interesting exploration of family, culture and technology intersecting…

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Review of Adoration (2009)

By Mattias E (160) on 06 Oct 2008

Egoyan has such a distinctive, provoking and symphonic style. An interesting exploration of family, culture and technology intersecting…

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Review of Death Wish (1974)

By Mattias E (160) on 02 Oct 2008

Notice the antediluvian graffiti on the train in the opening shots. In 1974 they didn't even have bubble letters. Those were the days…

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Review of La Promesse (1996)

By Mattias E (160) on 21 Sep 2008

The films of the Dardenne brothers tend to follow a simply formula - a lower working class character is faced with a moral dilemma, and they…

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Review of Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

By Mattias E (160) on 17 Sep 2008

A masterpiece in all it's simplicity. Or is it comlexity disguised as simplicity…

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Review of Camera Buff (1979)

By Mattias E (160) on 16 Sep 2008

Great early work hardly even recognizable as Kieslowski. Bears not a little resemblance to British realists…

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Review of Avalon (2001)

By Mattias E (160) on 05 Sep 2008

Avalon is, like Oshiis animated movies, full of longueurs and repeated scenes which makes it borderline boring at times…

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Review of The Mission (1986)

By Mattias E (160) on 05 Sep 2008

Saw this again for the first time in about 10 years, and yes, it deserves the five stars. truly great film…

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Review of Tuya's Marriage (2006)

By Mattias E (160) on 02 Sep 2008

Female independence in rural China ain't easy, as shown in this feminist fieldstudy of a movie from director Wang Quan An…

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Review of Le Doulos (1962)

By Mattias E (160) on 01 Sep 2008

Jean-Pierre Melville continually proves he is THE master of film noir…

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Review of My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)

By Mattias E (160) on 30 Aug 2008

Great fun, totalement dÃ©lurÃ© comme j'aime…

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Review of Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

By Mattias E (160) on 27 Aug 2008

One of the best British films made (possibly THE best one made). Paddy Considine is fkn superb. Scary, sad, funny. Fantastic film…

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Review of Brother (1997)

By Mattias E (160) on 22 Aug 2008

Post-Soviet St Petersburg looks almost post-apocalyptic in this gritty crimeflick…

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Review of Paranoid Park (2007)

By Mattias E (160) on 19 Aug 2008

The narrative starts and stops a few times and then kinda goes nowhere, but who needs a story with such elegant photography…

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Review of Black Mask (1996)

By Mattias E (160) on 31 Jul 2008

Some very sloppy direction from Daniel Lee here, and a preposterous story from Tsui Hark…

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Review of Gen-Y Cops (2000)

By Mattias E (160) on 30 Jul 2008

A killer robot? Benny Chan went too far this time, and he knows it. Stephen Fung and Sam Lee knows it too, but at least they're having fun…

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Review of The Bride with White Hair (1993)

By Mattias E (160) on 29 Jul 2008

Intensely beautiful picture from Ronnie Yu, subsequently lost in Hollywood anonymity along with Tsui Hark and John Woo…

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Review of Chungking Express (1994)

By Mattias E (160) on 20 Jul 2008

Sure it's trifle, but it's also the greatest unimportant movie ever made and a perfect cure for the alienated and melancholy among us…

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