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Shiri 1999
One of the films that I recall brought South Korean cinema into the public eye back in the day given its budget and the obvious attempt to ape the Bond and Bond-type action films of the West. However it hasn't aged well except to function as a curio given the presence of many now-bigger/big stars recognisable to Western audiences in the cast, like Song Kang-Ho and Choi Min-Sik.
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Strange how it took me ages to realise how much BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy draws from this.
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The Happy Prince 2018
I know very little about the famous writer, socialite and wit-bomb dropper Oscar Wilde, beyond the basic rise-and-fall arc of his life that takes in his rise to fame in Britain as the mind behind The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Importance of Being Earnest, through to imprisonment and social outcast status following his outing as gay. That being said, writer/director Rupert Everett's focus in The Happy Prince is on what happened after the fall, and taking a biopic…
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The Beguiled 2017
With The Beguiled, Sophia Coppola returns with a steamy, sly and beautifully shot thriller, leanly and precisely adapting Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 novel of the same name (and not remaking the Don Siegel adaptation that first brought the novel to the screen). Set in the Deep South of Virginia in a United States torn apart by a Civil War now in its third year, the story centres on the erotic and violent goings-on that take place in a dilapidated schoolhouse…
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