Allied (2016)
Let’s get that damn elephant out of the room. The private lives of our silver screen stars theoretically have no place in the judgement of the cinematic products we consume,…
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Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
To approach a film like Before I Go To Sleep with little knowledge of the narrative, its nifty twists and turns and psychological jolts, isn’t only appropriate but a necessity…
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LFF 2013: Tom at the Farm
The label ‘wunderkind’ seems to be thrown around quite lightly these days, but it doesn’t quite achieve its full meaning as when appropriated to a certain 24-year old Québécois filmmaker.…
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Stoker (2013)
There’s a long line of tradition in cinema of anti-heroines – suppressed females seduced into the carnal chutzpah of ultra-violence – that precedes the arrival of Stoker, Korean maestro Chan-wook Park’s…
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Lady Fatale – A Short Film
A homage to film noir, German expressionism, Hitchcock and 50’s Douglas Sirk melodrama. “Lady Fatale”, filmed with virtually no budget, using my Nikon D7000 camera, an empty room and some studio lights, is a reworking of the femme fatale prototype with nods to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Vertigo, and the film noir genre in general.
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