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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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Benedetta 2021
I happen to be currently reading a history of The Reformation for some research. When I read about the Theatine Order it didn't seem that exciting. It just sounded as austere and boring as it was designed to be. My imagination therefore had them being comparable to a dried apricot; shrivelled, slightly sticky and most likely having been pissed on by a dog while drying in the tuscan sun. But Veerhoeven definitely had a different vision. His is more a…
