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  • Sans Soleil
  • Opening Night
  • Secrets & Lies
  • Dekalog

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  • Nickel Boys

    ★★

  • The Boston Strangler

    ★★

  • Vertigo

    ★½

  • Blood and Black Lace

    ½

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  • Hercules Returns

    Hercules Returns

    ★★

    Pretty funny at times, though becomes kinda tedious after a bit as the concept loses its novelty. The voice of Hercules was randomly redolent of the George Steinbrenner character from Seinfeld. Cool that it was shot at the Palais Theatre, too.

  • Knight of Cups

    Knight of Cups

    ★★★★½

    Beautiful, mesmerising, and mystical.
    A masterpiece in its humanity and its art.

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  • Dekalog

    Dekalog

    ★★★★★

    This is my all time favourite series. Kieślowski brilliantly modernises each of the ten commandments by exploring the consequences and moral dilemmas that they bring about in contemporary society. He ultimately demonstrates how incompatible these tenets are with modern life by revealing the fine line between good and evil, or rather, that good/evil don't even exist. This is one of those rare shows where its individual parts are just as good as the sum of all its parts. The first…

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    Funeral Parade of Roses

    ★★★★★

    Absolute perfection. One of the best films I’ve seen in a very long time. The editing and sound are fantastic. You can definitely see how Kubrick was influenced by this in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I loved the mixture of documentary into the film as well, lending the subject matter greater authenticity. The way it cuts into different images, slips back and forth in time, uses aphoristic title cards, and incorporates multiple genres is just breathtaking. I haven’t felt this moved by an artwork in ages. I’m still reeling. Truly a masterpiece.