Dan North

Dan North

Favorite films

  • Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Alice
  • Holy Motors
  • Fanny and Alexander

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  • Alien: Romulus

    ★★★

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    ★★★½

  • Moana 2

    ★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★½

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★½

    "16 years later, and Rome is now ruled by the Weasley twins..."

  • Late Night with the Devil

    Late Night with the Devil

    ★★

    Someone saw Ghostwatch and thought they might improve it by removing the suspense, slow build-up, subtlety, or any pretense of it looking authentically like an actual live TV show at any point.

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  • Flying Horse

    Flying Horse

    This has been in production for years, so I'm curious to see how it turns out. It's also been superseded by Kyle Rideout's biopic 'Eadweard' (2015).

    It's worth noting that Bill Douglas wrote a screenplay about Eadweard Muybridge in the 1980s, also called 'Flying Horse'. I'm fairly certain that Gary Oldman's people have read it. It would be a shame if Douglas was not credited in any way.

  • Almost Heaven

    Almost Heaven

    ★★★★

    I suppose it's to this film's credit that I couldn't work out what was authentically captured, and what was narrativised for the camera or in the edit. It feels, paradoxically, too studiedly naturalistic to be a documentary, and too perfectly paced and structured to be anything other than a fictionalised encapsulation of many truths facing young people in China.

    I'm currently living my third year in China, and much of this rings very true about the ambivalent sense of hope,…

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