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The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part Three

My last two days at the film festival were nothing but mellow (what, no wild parties in Cannes?), and have completely resigned to seeing one film per day. Which means missing out…
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The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part Two

No amount of Cannes adrenaline rush could ever make me feel super enthusiastic waking up at the crack of morning to catch an 8.30 screening of a major film in…
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The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part One

Love affairs can be enduring. Some are more short-lived than most. Cannes Film Festival, for me, was the one that got away. I thought I’d never be back here again.…
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The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2016 Edition

Whatever the hell Martin Scorcese’s been smoking these days, I’m not having any of it. Spouting untruths like a proclaimer of gospels, he righteously preaches “Cinema is gone!”, after which millions of over-stressed…
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Possession (1981)

Divorce ain’t easy. Same in real life as it is in movies, the conscious uncoupling of the human species are most likely prone to jealousy, selfishness and bitter break-ups rather…
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LFF 2015: The Assassin

For those expecting for the new heir to Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou’s Hero in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, look elsewhere. This isn’t the crowd-pleasing, epic-making…
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LFF 2015: Mountains May Depart

There’s no stopping Jia Zhangke. After his gloriously vindictive A Touch of Sin, China’s foremost filmmaker pounces back into the festival scene not with blood splatter but with fountains of…
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White God (2015)

Just when you thought that dogs are the most infinitely lovable and devoted creatures you think they are, Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó punches through a poetic yet blistering slice of…
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Wakolda (2014)

Based on the true story featured in Lucía Puenzo’s novel of the same name, Wakolda forgoes the easily accessible blatancy of Nazi villainy in favour of an altogether more personal…
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Norte, The End of History (2014)

Filipino auteur Lav Diaz isn’t one for brevity. His brand of cinema – which rivals in length and protraction to that of Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr – requires colossal patience,…
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LFF 2013: Stranger By The Lake

The film with the most walkouts I’ve seen in Cannes Film Festival this year (counted at about eight, including the fiftysomething woman beside me who seemed to be having a…
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LFF 2013: Blue is the Warmest Colour

First love, when it grabs hold and takes over, is a maddening, all-consuming, intoxicating surrender of the senses. Cinema has plumbed all manners of depths to this topic, but perhaps…
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Cannes Short 2013: Agophobia

One of my worthwhile discoveries in the Court Métrage or the Short Film Corner in Cannes Film Festival this year was this blindingly ambitious 30-minute short film enticingly titled Agophobia by…
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Cannes 2013: Day Ten

And so my final day in Cannes has arrived – after ten days of seemingly endless queueing, the rants and raves in my blog and tweeting the shit out of…
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Cannes 2013: Day Nine

My penultimate day in Cannes involved myself checking out Alexander Payne’s misanthropic road-trip comedy Nebraska, a stripped-down, back-to-basics affair for Payne, whom I happen to bump into briefly in the Croisette.…
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Cannes 2013: Day Eight

Most veteran critics partaking in Cannes see four films per day (five, if they’re really vampiric), and I just about manage to average between two to three, the most number…
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Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives

Many will detest Nicholas Winding Refn’s ultraviolent, über-stylised, morally bankrupt neo-noir crime saga. This is not a prediction, it’s an observation. Only God Forgives has all the makings of a…
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Cannes 2013: Day Seven

A film-packed day preceded by a literally packed early bus trip, almost as worse as being trapped in a tin of tuna, featuring Somebody Who Forgot To Wash – the…
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Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis

Satisfaction is indeed a lot sweeter after all the waiting. I’ve queued up for three screenings just to get into the new one from the Coen brothers, and finally managed to…
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Cannes 2013: Stranger By The Lake

The film with the most walkouts I’ve seen so far in Cannes Film Festival 2013 A.D. (counted at about eight, including the fiftysomething woman beside me who seemed to be…
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