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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 26 Nov 2017

[The Joker] was to become cinema's poster boy for international terror, with Batman's extra-legal responses - vigilante violence, external…

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Review of Apocalypse Now (1979)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 26 Nov 2017

As Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) heads up river to assassinate Kurtz, his increasing admiration for the man is offset by his disgust at the…

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Review of Hounds of Love (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 23 Nov 2017

Vicki's efforts to escape her harrowing circumstances place Hounds of Love firmly in the horror genre, but the real monsters here are the systemic…

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Review of Jeruzalem (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 21 Oct 2017

There is too much subjectivised sightseeing & meandering character business in the first two acts…

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Review of Night of the Living Deb (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 21 Oct 2017

these citizens of Maine take armageddon in their stride, and even find time, mid-massacre, for a spot of relationship-building…

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Review of Never Let Go (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 21 Oct 2017

Here, as with a Rambo sequel, the text is clear while the subtext (on race, gender and geopolitics) remains murky and misconceived…

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Review of My Bloody Banjo (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 21 Oct 2017

If a would-be man's arrested development and inability to put away childish things are key themes in Liam Regan's feature debut Banjo, juvenility…

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Review of The Isle (2000)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 22 Sep 2017

If you have a strong stomach, then this deceptively calm tale of self-imposed isolation, extreme emotions and fishing will quickly reel you…

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Review of In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 22 Sep 2017

Oshima has crafted an uncompromisingly hardcore study in sexual obsession, which also serves as an allegory of the insularity and madness of…

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Review of Vulgaria (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 22 Sep 2017

This scabrous behind-the-scenes commentary on the Hong Kong Category III sex comedy certainly lives up to its title - but amidst all the animal…

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Review of Le Doulos (1962)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 09 Aug 2017

A film whose characters & plot are concealed as much as they are revealed by the images that flicker on the screen, & whose black & white cinematography…

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Review of Martin (1978)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 15 Jul 2017

Not so much a horror film as a tragedy of alienation, Martin presents a man gravely isolated by a repressive family environment, painful shyness…

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Review of Bluebeard (2017)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 09 Jul 2017

In filling in that dark unknown space in the plastic bag & in supplementing the narrative of Bluebeard with our own anxiety, expectation &…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 03 Jun 2017

Lowery's film haunts with its highly localised perspective on human history, as it goes/stays on a quest for a scrap of deferred meaning…

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Review of Buster's Mal Heart (2017)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 23 May 2017

A heady tragedy, elegantly shot (by Shaheen Seth), expertly edited (by Smith) and confidently mounted, with just enough loose threads to leave…

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Review of Sour Grapes (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 29 Apr 2017

Reuben Atlas and Jerry Rothwell's documentary Sour Grapes traces a massive fraud where one connoisseur's con may just have tainted an entire…

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Review of Hellraiser (1987)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 08 Apr 2017

This isn’t for your eyes”, says the demonic Cenobite –- but he is so very wrong about Clive Barker'’s must-see horror…

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Review of City of Tiny Lights (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 05 Apr 2017

Tommy's long dark night of the soul maps out his neighbourhood's past and present, while offering a harmonious vision of the future, far beneath…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Mar 2017

Driven as much by Amy Sharp and [Ben] Wheatley's witty dialogue as by the whizzing and pinging of ammunition, Free Fire shows what happens…

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Review of The Dark Knight (2008)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 08 Mar 2017

The Dark Knight may mirror the ethical dilemmas & duplicities of the War on Terror, but it also offers a different, better way through them,…

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