Nic Compall

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Favorite films

  • Cria!
  • The Conformist
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

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  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

    ★★★★½

  • Bay of Angels

    ★★★½

  • Lola

    ★★★★

  • The Small Town

    ★★★★½

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  • 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

    71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

    ★★★★

    Should go down in the future as one of the best films about anxiety in the beginning of the digital age.  A lot of shots of people sleepwalking through life, unaware of arms sales going down in the middle of a crowded cafe, lost in their own problems, until they’re activated, or woken up by a public shooting.

  • The Devil, Probably

    The Devil, Probably

    ★★★★

    Bresson’s clinical approach to filmmaking was perfect for this material.  As dull and lifeless as these people’s hopeless attitude.

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  • The Taste of Things

    The Taste of Things

    ★★★★

    Never have I experienced such strong kitchen envy.

  • Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

    ★★★★

    A comprehensive look at the transition from communism to capitalism. A look into a time when culture was politically torn between east and west. Between the failures of American influenced economic “shock therapy” and the horror of the first Chechen war, a front to distract the population from internal problems and to shift blame by creating a national enemy.

    Some of the absurdism from the time can be very funny- from fake political candidates who were propped up by the…