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Every Non-English Language Best Picture Nominee Ranked
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, amour, Best International Feature Film, Best Picture, Cries and Whispers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, drive my car, feature, Il Postino, La Grande Illusion, Letters from Iwo Jima, Life is Beautiful, Minari, Oscars, Parasite, ranked, Roma, sam sewell-peterson, The Emigrants, World Cinema, z
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Where to Start with Bong Joon-ho
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Bong Joon-ho, Parasite, Snowpiercer, The Host
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2020
Before I press on with my usual roundup of the year’s releases, I’ll put forward a few other films that have hit me particularly hard this year. What should you watch to see out this most awful of awful twelve … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged A White White Day, Ainu Mosir, Babyteeth, Being There, Black Panther, Coco, Crip Camp, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, His House, Host, Mangrove, Mank, Monsoon, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Rocks, Scare Me, Shirley, The Assistant, The Great Dictator, The Vast of Night, Time
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Sam Sewell-Peterson’s 10 Best Films of 2020
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Tagged Babyteeth, Crip Camp, Host, Mank, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Rocks, The Assistant, The Vast of Night
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Review in Brief: The Platform (2019)
THE PLATFORM may feel relevant but it’s extremely obvious in its use of metaphor. One character (Zorion Eguileor) has a catchphrase, responding to every passing comment of his cell mate (Iván Massagué) with a derisive “Obviously”. “Obviously” could be this … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Cube, Galder a-Urrutia, Horror, Iván Massagué, Netflix, Parasite, Satire, Sci-fi, The Platform, Zorion Eguileor
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Windows into Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
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Tagged Bong Joon-ho, Parasite, World Cinema
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2010-2019
We never did decide on a name for this decade that didn’t sound completely stupid did we? Thank goodness for the insight and escapism that cinema offers because the world has been heading for disaster at an alarming rate as … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged 13th, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, A Ghost Story, Avengers: Endgame, Baby Driver, Best of, Blade Runner 2049, Drive, Ex Machina, For Sama, I Lost My Body, Jojo Rabbit, Nina Forever, Our Little Sister, Parasite, Private Life, Room, Searching, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, Tell Me Who I Am, The Farewell, The Hunt, The Illusionist, The Nightingale, The Rider, The Two Popes, We Are the Best!, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Wild Rose
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Review: Parasite (2019)
I fell in love with the genre-hopping, tonally-tromboning work of South Korean firebrand Bong Joon-ho at university and ended up writing my dissertation on how his films represent fractured families and Korean culture. I’ve been waiting for PARASITE for what … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Black Comedy, Bong Joon-ho, Jang Hye-jin, Lee Sun-kyun, Parasite, Park So-dam, Song Kang-ho, The Host, Thriller, Trainspotting, World Cinema
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