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  In the Spider's Grip 1920

  ★★★ Watched 12 Aug 2023 2

  Wladyslaw Starewicz had already made a bunch of stop motion short films featuring insect characters and fable-like narrative, but this one stands out from its predecessors because it's fully colorized and the protagonists have human faces, detailed in close ups with uncanny yet expressive rubber masks (or puppets?). The story gets kind of brutal towards the end, maybe because it was Starewicz's first film in France after he fled the bolsheviks. Also spiders don't have antennae.

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  Missing 411: The U.F.O. Connection 2022

  ★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2023

  David Paulides is a guy on a quest. Those who have been following the Missing 411 cases are probably familiar with it, for years he has gathered an immense amount of data concerning missing individuals in national parks; people who just vanish and are never found, or, are found later under strange circumstances.

  Highlighted cases were covered previously in two full feature documentaries; the first one a little bland, the second one the best of them. From one film to…

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  A Visitor to a Museum 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2014 3

  This film was so close to becoming a masterpiece, but it got too ambiguous for my taste and it ended up missing part of its initial charm along with a concrete resolution.

  The plot follows a tourist who is looking for the ruins of a museum in a chemically contaminated wasteland where trains drop garbage as far as the eye can see. Due to these conditions, most of the locals born with physical and mental abnormalities and they're kept in…

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  The End of August at the Hotel Ozone 1967

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2014

  This is a true post-apocalyptic depiction, in my opinion. No mutated animals, no crazy looters wearing gas masks, no modified vehicles, no stock footage of atomic bombs... just people trying to survive in cold and objective ways.

  It's a little Czech film that follows a group of women traveling through the abandoned world after an unspecified nuclear exchange. Where are they going? What do they want? Who knows... they just survive and wander around. They're led by an elderly woman…

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