The release of PERSONA in 1966 proved as groundbreaking to Ingmar Bergman’s career as “Revolver” had been to The Beatles’ that same year – or “Highway 61 Revisited” had been to Bob Dylan’s the year before. Ironically, that milestone ought to have belonged to his previous work – his maiden colour feature ALL THESE WOMEN (1964) – but it was one of his weakest and most retrograde efforts instead. A health crisis and a lengthy period of convalescence brought about…
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Hospital 1977
“A day in the life” of an undernourished Polish hospital – literally punctuated by hourly reminders of the passing time – filmed in stark monochrome that treats the frustrations of the medical staff and the sufferings of the patients with alternately poignantly humanistic, darkly comic and dispassionately clinical tones.
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No Other Land 2024
While one is grateful for this rare insider portrait of the real plight of the Palestinian people – as opposed to their age-old depiction as ruthless terrorists – the events shown in this feature film get to be so alarmingly repetitive – Israeli ‘authorities’ come to evict a group of small Palestinian villages to erect a training camp; they encounter local opposition; the Israelis maim or kill someone; the Palestinian protagonist through whose eyes we follow the ordeal threatens them…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
Well…there’s eighteen hours of my life I’ll never get back!
David Lynch’s decision to return to TWIN PEAKS after a 25-year hiatus was much discussed at the time but, being only a casual Lynch fan and a much-frustrated one of the Washington State saga, it was only through the insistent urging of two fellow film buffs that I finally relented to catch this third season now after all this time.
An alliterated summary of my final verdict would read (in…
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