Top four are the last four films rated 4.5 or 5 stars on a first watch, or upgraded on a revisit.
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Leila and the Wolves 1984
A slight disappointment after The Hour of Liberation has Arrived (a film I gave four stars but often think about a year later). Make no mistake though, this is still a cut above most films on Palestine, Lebanon, and Israel. A cut above most films, period.
A collective experience of women in Palestine and Lebanon during decades of oppression, told in a mosaic of voices and faces one won’t forget that easily. Interwoven with the women we get the history…
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Tomka and His Friends 1977
Why do I keep doing this to myself? To double the number of seen Albanian films to two?
A promise of football, World War II, and Albanian partisans i guess – but not much football here, and as for the war… it’s more Emil & The Detectives than the battle of Stalingrad.This is made for young adults (children more likely) and we’re never in any doubt Tomka & co will make it and most likely be Communist heroes as they grow…
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Black Sunday 1960
Hooptober9 – 4/31
A piece of beauty, and a perfect example of how to transform a simple story of revenge from the dead to the screen. Not every director will have a Barbara Steele, but not every director is a Bava and know how to use her, either.
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Faya Dayi 2021
Probably a mistake to watch this film the same day as Araya.
There it was salt in Venezuela, here khat in Ethiopia. But the people are as much on the bottom of the food-chain here, wanting to escape to Europe but struggling to afford it. And they consume khat, loads of it.Both films portray a people most of us don't know anything about, and they both fascinate in many ways. And both use black and white photography to do…
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