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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

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  Michel Gondry and Charlie Kauffman’s best film - is also Jim Carrey’s most real and honest, which is interesting because it’s a ‘weird’ high concept romance. He’s here to deliver pathos with only flourishes of eccentricity popping up when the story requires it. He helps ground and navigate the path that Gondry and Kauffman have set out in front of us. Set in the present but with the technology available to wipe something or someone from you memory - this…

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Added

  Winner of the Best Original Screenplay award at that year’s Oscars, Jonze’s most heartfelt feels like you’re caught in that wonderful time when you’re in bed and the warm glow of a hazy sun is fanning through the window numbering the dust in the air. The time is summer and everything is fine. At once the moment is cinematic and comforting - but you know in the back of your mind that soon enough the moment will be over and…

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  Children of Men 2006

  ★★★★★ Added

  I'd say I've watched this film as much as any of my favourite films but every time I rewatch it, I notice something more. I know that's a cliche but in this film's case it's true. The full, dense layering of the production design and art direction ensures that not a frame is wasted in setting up the world. I'd say this is one of the best designed films of the last 20 years. It does near future without resorting…

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  Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975

  ★★★★★ Added

  Peter Weir is one of those directors who has never made a bad film. This entry in his filmography is possibly one of his most elusive to describe. It's based on a book just as Spoorloos is and like the film above, revolves around the disappearance of young women. But unlike Spoorloos it's not just one young woman but multiple who vanish in broad daylight, during a school trip in 1900.

  Like Spoorloos, Weir uses none of the tricks associated…

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