Candyman combines multiple aspects of cinema I find fascinating on their own but when put together form into something truly rather profound, though in the immediate aftermath of watching it I am still struggling to warp my head around it. This movie is at once psychological, deeply so, reminiscent in a sense of something along the lines of Perfect Blue but it combines that with a sense of surrealism and a dreamlike aesthetic that's aided by the Philip Glass soundtrack…
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The Battle of Algiers 1966
Watching The Battle Of Algiers as an Algerian is an odd experience. This movie has a cultural presence in my home country that's unmatched, it's very well known and revered for it's depiction of the independence struggle, one that's been drilled into my head and that of many, many Algerians born and raised as I was. So, going in, because of that, I had some reservations about what the portrayal would be like even if I'd heard that it was…
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My Dinner with Andre 1981
"I could always live in my art, but never in my life."
Autumn Sonata is my favourite movie. It is the movie that sparked my passion for cinema, it is the movie that showed me what the medium was capable of, so hearing Wally mention it at the start, speaking of Andre's hysterical sobbing to that line above felt as though I was being spoken to.
That is the feeling that My Dinner With Andre gives me in general. Andre…
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