There is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there? Eleven viewings later and still as fresh as ever, Videodrome is quite possibly the best film ever made about the relationship between viewers and what they view. The film's most iconic image is James Woods sticking his head inside a television set during a hallucination - an image that very much embodies what it feels like to be totally immersed in a film or a television program: the tendency…
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Fanny and Alexander 1982
Alexander does not wish the bishop a good night. This five-hour coming-of-age drama from Ingmar Bergman is so rich in themes and ideas that it is nearly impossible to sum up in one sentence. It is mostly though a tale of a young boy with an overactive imaginative who learns to stand up for himself and view himself as his own person when taken away from his family in which he is only one of many. Indeed, while the first…
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The Devil's Rock 2011
Set in the Channel Islands during World War II, this low budget horror film involves a couple of Kiwi soldiers who infiltrate a Nazi base, only to discover brutalised dead bodies everywhere and an occult booklet. One of the soldiers is soon killed and the other survives, only to be bound up by a lone Nazi who keeps going upstairs to tend to the needs of an apparent woman in distress. While some the subsequent plot turns become silly and…
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The Daisy Chain 2008
Away with you! Away with you!
Recently orphaned and ostracised by her closed-minded community, a young girl on the autism spectrum is taken in by a couple who have just move into town in this strange Irish movie. Mhairi Anderson is phenomenal as the title character, displaying several autism traits as well as radiating a curious mix of vulnerability and danger since all of the superstitious locals are scared of her and believe that she is a "fairy changeling". What…
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Solaris 1972
Andrei Tarkovsky combines the mysteries of deep space with an acute look at grief, loneliness and what it means to be human in this stunning sci-fi drama. While the film moves slowly, it is never dull as Tarkovsky makes his film about tension and uncertainty as opposed to thrills and chills. The film is also very much about the way that we react to the unknown, with a curious parallel to draw between the boy scared of the horse in…
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Variola Vera 1982
Titled after the Latin name for smallpox and inspired by actual events, this Yugoslav movie follows an outbreak of the disease at a Belgrade hospital with panic ensuing. The film is cut from the same cloth as Contagion, and while never as engrossing as that with less enticing characters, the film has enough effective small touches that the overall movie works. A flute has particularly eerie significance in a couple of key scenes, while the initial stages of the disease…
