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Reviews

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  Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924

  

  Lilla🎭 ★★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Modesty Blaise 1966

  

  Not Dave Kehr

  Joseph Losey's 1966 send-up of the spy genre is in essence a send-up of a send-up. Losey himself refers to it as a mixture of bitterness, humor, and gaiety, but…

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  Modesty Blaise 1966

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★ 2

  this james bond rip-off is better directed, better acted, funnier and more entertaining than any actual james bond film*. why the fuck don't we have 26 more modesty blaise movies,…

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  On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate 2002

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★½

  Except for the lack of zooms, most of what one associates with Hong was firmly in place by 2002 particular the doubling of the two women, the use of outside…

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  On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate 2002

  

  Post1000Tension ★★★★

  “Who do you think you are? A film director?!” Narrative as formal architecture, always a sense of Hong creating new openings for his rather pitiable characters. This can make the…

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  Just Before Nightfall 1971

  

  Not Dave Kehr

  A fascinating Claude Chabrol film, much more subtle in its effects than most of his work of this period (1971). Michel Bouquet is a model middle-class family man who kills…

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  Just Before Nightfall 1971

  

  Diogo Serafim ★★★★

  When a rat dies, we see violence. When hands are shown, we remember the strangulation of a woman. When objects are emphasized, we see the house a close friend imagined.…

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  Just Before Nightfall 1971

  

  Evan Morgan ★★★★½

  An overcast sky summons a death wish: “I deserve the worst…kill me”. The ambient pallor shortly migrates to a fresh corpse, initiating this nightmare in gray and white (the color…