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Mrs. Fang 2017
Only saw this for completist purposes, kinda had a blast. (Can something be a minor blast?) It's a simple, cumulatively shattering record of life as we rarely see it captured in narrative or documentary cinema. Especially because we know so little about the woman herself, she is practically all of us, as death will come knocking on all our doors sooner or later. But, you know? — IMO, this is very pure and artistic.
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The Venerable W. 2017
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Barbet Schoeder’s Le vénérable W., is the final installment in what the 76-year-old Iranian-Swiss director has come to refer to as his nonfiction “trilogy of evil.”
As it always is with ethnic cleansings and genocides, the history of the conflict stretches far into the past. Muslim traders settled in the ancient Arakan (now Rakhine) kingdom of Mrauk-U more than 1200 years ago and were integrated within its cultural and political life…
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A Matter of Life and Death 1946
This is one of the most audacious films ever made — in its grandiose vision, and in the cozy English way it's expressed. The story is magnificent and intimate. A film of his time but with a universal appeal.
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Egomania: Island Without Hope 1986
DIABEŁ OF ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI + Ken Russell’s GHOTIC = EGOMANIA - INSEL OHNE HOFFNUNG. Tilda Swinton for a short while was Schlingensief’s muse and passion—She was known then for her performances in the films of Derek Jarman. And it was with and for Swinton, that he made EGOMANIA, a post-Apocalyptic Romantic tone poem about loss photographed under glorious Caspar David Friedrich skies. Shot on a small island, with a small cast and crew, EGOMANIA was improvised according to the vagaries…
