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A Trip to the Moon 1902
Everything I love about cinema started right there in the 1890s. The Lumière Brothers started a long tradition of realism, capturing life on camera and providing a snapshot of different times, people and places. In extension of this, Alice Guy-Blache utilised this new mass media to reach out and engage broad audiences in social commentary and make…
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Land of the Dead 2005
Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #30
Stalin, Eisenstein and Romero are seated in a drawing room on plush leather armchairs. They are enjoying cognac around the hearth of an open fire. They make small talk about the hoof and mouth disease epidemic in California, the Olympics in Paris and how absurd and profound Dada truly is.
Stalin narrows the conversation down to business, "Mr. Romero, I am very pleased to have you join our film program. It is my…
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The Hidden 1987
- The credits roll over surveillance footage inside a bank. Customers are milling about everywhere. Straightaway this sets it up as a heist scene but you don't from which direction the action is going to enter the frame. Then you realise that a man is standing there completely still. How long has he been there you wonder. Your focus is now stuck on him but nothing happens. Suddenly, all he'll breaks loose! Great way to start a film.
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Antiporno 2016
Thanatos, Eros and the Art of Zen - Japanese Erotic Cinema Project - #1
I went to see this film at the cinema on my own. Nobody else could go but I wanted to anyway because I am precipitously dementing into a Sion Sono fan. And it has the word porno in the title, so there is that.
The movie finished. There was a couple sitting next to me wearing jumpsuits. The woman in a red jumpsuit turned to her…
