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Review of My Life Without Me (2003)

By Sakari L (65) on 20 Oct 2008

Unlike another film Time to Leave and other films which also deal with a dying protagonist, this film has a lot of heart and deals with dying…

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Review of The Conformist (1971)

By Sakari L (65) on 30 Sep 2008

A portrait of a man who, traumatized by his childhood, becomes an insecure adult who only ever does what everyone else tolds him to…

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Review of Zabriskie Point (1970)

By Sakari L (65) on 27 Aug 2008

Not everything Antonioni made was pure gold and when the middle-aged director decided to make a hippie film in the USA the result was destined…

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Review of ...And God Created Woman (1956)

By Sakari L (65) on 21 Aug 2008

Brigitte was perfect but I didn't like the end of the film…

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Review of A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

By Sakari L (65) on 10 Aug 2008

At times harrowing and incredibly impactful, others too loose, lacking subtlety and technically distracting…

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Review of Faces (1968)

By Sakari L (65) on 26 Jul 2008

L-O-N-G, but excellent acting if you have the patience…

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Review of Chungking Express (1994)

By Sakari L (65) on 18 Jul 2008

I certainly had high hopes for this one - the Breathless of the 1990's…

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Review of Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

By Sakari L (65) on 16 Jul 2008

This French version of a noir thriller oozes continental coolness - realized in perfect style, it anticipated the new rise of European cinema…

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Review of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

By Sakari L (65) on 15 Jul 2008

One of a kind in its blend of urban black culture and martial arts, a blend only seen in the Wu Tang Clan whose fingerprints are all over this,…

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Review of Blow-Up (1966)

By Sakari L (65) on 17 May 2008

Only Antonioni, the master of self-indulged, image-centered movies could make the perfect film about 1960's Swinging London…

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Review of Swimming Pool (2003)

By Sakari L (65) on 30 Apr 2008

A middle-aged writer's personal past and imagination start to confound with her usual genre, crime novels, as she seeks to write an entirely…

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Review of The Pool (2001)

By Sakari L (65) on 30 Apr 2008

A middle-aged writer's personal past and imagination start to confound with her usual genre, crime novels, as she seeks to write an entirely…

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Review of Stardust Memories (1980)

By Sakari L (65) on 18 Apr 2008

This is Woody Allen at the top of his game…

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Review of The Ladykillers (2004)

By Sakari L (65) on 21 Feb 2008

I still intend to watch the original, as I found this version funny in parts and an interesting story…

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Review of Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

By Sakari L (65) on 01 Feb 2008

A bittersweet tragedy, a fine film that brings out the struggles of a family trying to go past its ghosts and hope for a better future…

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Review of if.... (1968)

By Sakari L (65) on 13 Jan 2008

Boys' boarding school's pupils rise against the authorities in this weird, satirical film that gradually slips from realism to fantasy - it's…

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Review of Danger: Diabolik (1968)

By Sakari L (65) on 03 Jan 2008

Classic 60's kitsch directed by perhaps the wackiest of them all, B-movie maestro Mario Bava. They don't make films like these anymore…

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Review of Who's That Knocking at My Door (1968)

By Sakari L (65) on 02 Jan 2008

What a curious film…

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Review of Small Change (1976)

By Sakari L (65) on 30 Dec 2007

A sympathetic movie about school children, no less, that also manages to say something very essential about the significance of this particular…

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Review of Wild Strawberries (1957)

By Sakari L (65) on 27 Dec 2007

Dreams merge with reality in this masterful movie about an aging professor who tries to come to terms with his past…

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