Twin Peaks: The Return
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#35th Film of 2023
‘I’ll see you again in 25 years. meanwhile…’ - Twin Peaks S2 Finale
David Lynch kept his promise and 25 years later delivered us The Return: serving both as a sequel to the iconic television series which changed the landscape of TV, and to the (at the time) much maligned masterpiece ‘Twin Peaks:…
Taipei Story
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#467TH Film Of 2020
My first experience with an Edward Yang work was Yi Yi, which was a film entirely different to anything I’d seen prior and one that moved me a great deal and remains one of my all time favorites. Yang’s most acclaimed film A Brighter Summer Day has long been my most anticipated viewing. Sometime ago I purchased…
I love the dog related literature in these Wallace and Gromit films. In this case it’s Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dogstoyevsky. One of my favourites has to be The Republic by Pluto, in The Wrong Trousers.
La Haine
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#368TH Film Of 2020
La Haine is a fiery, passionate, powerful and important modern masterpiece. It appears like a film in which everyone working on it truly felt the ideas that the filmmaker was trying to explore and they all went there together. It opens magnificently, and centers around three stellar and very real performances from Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé…
Midnight Cowboy
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#349TH Film Of 2020
Before actually writing this review I was excited to finally write a review of a film I was going to give 5 stars but not 100/100, this film I had noted down as a 95%, but once I clicked the review button on this film I thought yeah maybe it’s a 96 or even a 97…
