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Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
It's been a long time since I've seen a Wes Anderson film. I still haven't seen all of his work. My favourite of those I have seen is The Life Aquatic.
As to be expected there's a few of Anderson's regular stable of actors, voice-only this time however. More of the same warm, muted colour palette, offbeat characters and quirky dialogue. The new aspect is the stop-motion animation which has a texture to it that's inviting and reminiscent of Nightmare…
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The Sweeney 2013
Based on the titular 1970s British crime drama TV series. I'd heard little about this one, just that it opened a festival last year.
Ray Winstone does rather well as Jack Regan, the cop with slightly dodgy morals and some brutal old-school methods of getting the job done. The other main characters are British faces I don't recognise apart from the man in charge of Internal Affairs Ivan Lewis, played by Steve Mackintosh who was the traitorous cop in the…
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Beyond the Black Rainbow 2011
A ponderous arthouse film with the production style of '80s cinema. Some other visual influences are obvious, such as THX-1138 and 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, of the no doubt countless others, I'd bet that R. W. Fassbinder's 'World on a Wire' is certainly one of them.
Don't watch this expecting to see a solid, logical narrative. In fact, I think the film might have benefitted from either scaling the story back or fleshing it out more. Instead, go for the hypnotic visual treat with its dreamlike atmosphere and spot-on synth score.
