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No Other Land 2024
A good theatrical documentary should show you something you would never encounter otherwise that changes you. As the participants themselves comment in the film, the creeping dehumanisation and extirpation of an entire people, based on a lie is not something that makes good mainstream news, but it is no less horrifying today than it was in the age of Western manifest destiny in the centuries leading into the 20th, and this brilliantly made film crystallises that.
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Black Dog 2024
A fine story about an ex-con misfit (Eddie Peng) who comes home from prison to his remote west-Chinese town to find it has a stray dog problem and is about to be demolished in the wake of the 2008 Olympics, whereupon he finds purpose in life with a stray whippet-cross he is ordered to catch. Its humanity, magical realism and subtle social criticism comes across like Jia Zhangke making a contemporary Western, and Jia himself does cameo in a key…
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Two-Lane Blacktop 1971
Amazing, almost forgotten classic road film about two almost silent rev-heads (Dennis Wilson and James Taylor) driving across America in their custom street-racing machine until they cross paths with a hitch-hiking hippie and a rich middle-aged GTO driver with a past (Warren Oates). Shot with almost a verité style using locations (including real speedways) and available light, it's a brilliant character and mood piece and feels like an elegy for 1960s idealism turning into the Me Generation's self-absorbtion. Oates in…
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