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Perfect Days
Perfect Days gets its title from the Lou Reed song and in many ways tried to capture the essence of it. It follows the life of Hirayama...
Laura Bailey
Jul 5, 20242 min read
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My 9 Most Visually Stunning Movies of the 21st Century
The Tree of Life The Tree of Life is no modest project; the goal of which is to make you feel the weight of all time and space as it...
Laura Bailey
Apr 28, 20246 min read
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Her, Spike Jonze (2013)
You might first think that Her is high concept film, given the rather curious premise of a man falling in love with a synthetic...
Laura Bailey
Jan 29, 20204 min read
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Birds of Passage, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (2019)
Ciro Guerra is just as much an anthropologist, exploring his home country, as a film maker. His intertwining of the two disciplines in...
Laura Bailey
Jun 12, 20193 min read
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Shoplifters, Hirokazu Koreeda (2018)
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters was 2018’s winner for the prestigious Palm d’Or at Cannes. It was up against a number of impressive films...
Laura Bailey
Apr 16, 20193 min read
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Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai (1994)
"A dreamy, witty and altogether perfect movie that never fails to lift my mood" Chungking Express, directed by Wong Kar Wai, comes into...
Laura Bailey
Mar 18, 20194 min read
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Roma, Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
Roma, so far has achieved best film at the Bafta awards, has been hailed by critics almost across the board and is one of the favourites...
Laura Bailey
Feb 15, 20194 min read
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Adaptation, Spike Jonze (2002)
One of my most memorable and wonderfully bizarre moments from a movie. Spike Jonze’s auteurship is marked by a reputation for bewildering...
Laura Bailey
Jan 13, 20193 min read
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Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)
Baby Driver, new cinematic car chase romp from Edgar Wright, is as thrillingly romantic as it is stylishly pastiche. Paying homage to...
Laura Bailey
Dec 30, 20183 min read
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Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham (2018)
Eighth grade tells the story of Kayla who along with all the horrors of growing up, suffers from crippling shyness. This is a truly...
Laura Bailey
Dec 18, 20183 min read
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Amores Perros, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2000)
Amores Perros deals with three storylines of antiheroes that all collide in a tragic car accident. The first deals with the incestuous...
Laura Bailey
Nov 21, 20183 min read
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Climax, Gaspar Noe (2018)
Climax (Gaspar Noe, 2018) allures its audience with its dangerous and sexually charged title. One might be expecting that the film will...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20184 min read
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Leto, Kirill Serebrenikov (2018)
Summer (Leto) is a 2018 film directed by Russian rebel and filmmaker Kirill Serebrenikov. The film is a tribute to the underground rock...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20183 min read
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This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi (2011)
Jafar Panahi, director, producer, writer and the documentary's main subject, has been put under house arrest for allegedly promoting...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20183 min read
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2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Now we can see the same narratives and philosophies present in films such as Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina and even in TV series such as...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20184 min read
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