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Venezia 66 - Venice Film Festival Day Six from shepster 55 days old

FILM - Mr. Nobody, DIRECTOR - Jaco van Dormael,COUNTRY - Belgium, SECTION - In Competition Why I wanted to see it? - Sarah Polley. Impressions : The ...

Venezia 66 - Venice Film Festival Day Two from shepster 57 days old

FILM - Choi Voi (Adrift), DIRECTOR - Chuyên Bui Thac,COUNTRY - Vietnam, SECTION - Horizons Why I wanted to see it? - Linh Dan Pham, from The Beat That ...

Flammen & Citronen (Flame & Citron) from shepster 192 days old

It's not often you get a big Danish film as they are usually hyper-low budget Dogme-fests. Despite being tiny in Hollywood terms, the scale of Flame ...

Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) from shepster 213 days old

Unless you are a filmmaker like Mike Leigh or Wong Kar Wai, who use extensive improvisation or find the films in the editing room, the screenplay is ...

Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence) from shepster 258 days old

It seems almost impossible to talk about this (or any Dardennes Brothers) film without referencing their previous films because they, like Wong Kar Wai, ...

Ashes of Time Redux & a stockpile of stuff... from shepster 271 days old

[ ... ] entirely necessary for Wong Kar Wai to take this approach to the storytelling because if you told it chronologically you'd have the Maggie Cheung ...

Brideshead Revisited from shepster 403 days old

I have wanted to see the ITV version of Brideshead Revisited for a while but never got round to putting it on my rental queues. I've never read the book ...

The first of a caramel sandwich... from shepster 537 days old

So it turns out I now have enough for two separate batches of reviews and I still have to do caramel, so I'll get one out of the way now and then do ...

God, girls, movies and threesomes from shepster 574 days old

I'll start this one off with a couple of BAFTA winning French films. First one is a film I've wanted to see for years and I HATE that I had to download ...

Incest, drug abuse, several phantoms and stylised violence... from shepster 582 days old

[ ... ] in the form of Wong Kar Wai's martial arts movie Ashes of Time. Now this is intriguing because he is doing a "redux" version of it very soon ...