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  Robot Dreams 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Apr 2024

  Cinema in the Arches
  Battersea, London, United Kingdom

  A small indie theater embedded into the stone arches of an old elevated railway track in the district of Battersea. Steps away from the Battersea Power Station, which glimpses of the structure can be seen in films such as The Dark Knight, Children of Men, 1984 and The King’s Speech, this newly renovated area in a quaint nitche part of town was an unintentional perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of…

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  Bridge of Spies 2015

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Apr 2020

  Interview:
  Steven Spielberg (Director, Producer)

  Excerpt:
  "A hero is a person who doesn’t know they are a hero. I don’t set out to glorify a character. If an audience wants to lift a character higher than my point of view as a director, that’s absolutely fine. There’s certain characters like Indiana Jones that I hoped audiences would lift way above, way out of my reach and turn them into their heroes, but it’s not something I set out to do.…

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  Shoplifters 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Oct 2018

  #CIFF screening #2 

  This is one of those flicks that you can’t immediately assemble all of your thoughts. I saw “Shoplifters” last night and I still want to hold off to let things settle, but Godspeed. 

  I want to first comment on the relationship between our entire ensemble. It’s brilliantly portrayed through subtext, side conversations, action and not always is it the main focus of a shot. Often, scenes take place in a close-quartered hoarding shack, and our scope is…

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jul 2019

  Palace Chauvel Cinema
  Paddington, Sydney, NSW Australia

  Parasite screened in the Official Competition section and the Sydney Film Festival in mid June. The film screened twice *and* welcomed director/writer Bong Joon-Ho in attendance for Q&As. Anyways, my span of 7 days in Sydney on Holiday (I’m really picking up on this down under lingo) surely had to include a visit to the theater. To my fucking surprise, Parasite had a handful of screenings at a few locations (US release isn’t…

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