I saw this film when it came out and was blown away by Elvis Payne who is incredible in this Thatcher's Britain of the early eighties, I've been trying to see it again for years and just found it today some nearly 40 years later. The atmosphere of menace builds up through the glimpses of the police state, a police car refusing to stop, army trucks passing by incidentally until the full blown violence of the whole machine becomes to…
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Nostromo 2021
A timelessness roams through this film that holds your attention as it focuses on the details of a man's isolation on an island somewhere as he catches, fillets and smokes fish, and in parallel two native American men and a boy hunt and shoot a moose, although their sequences do not run chronologically so the time also slips back and forth, they seem about to do something that happened in the past, shifting timeframes that creates a mesmerising journey, repetition…
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The Second Game 2014
The director's father was one of the most famous football referees in Romania. In 1987 he refereed a match between the secret police and the army, and it snowed non stop. Father and son watch the match and comment. It shouldn't work but it does, its an absolutely hypnotic peice, to be seen by everyone with an interest in cinema, football fans or not.
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