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Andorra0:00/338.4106671× I have a cold. Being a man, that makes it a very serious illness, and I’m therefore feeling incredibly sorry for myself. I mention this not for sympathy, but because I spent much of the running time of The Devil’s Kiss wondering what the
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Bulgaria0:00/440.2133331× Folklore is a powerful thing. It lays clear our deepest fears. It’s primal in its intensity. It’s revealing. Except here. Roseville manages the unusually impressive feat of presenting unusually elaborate folklore while remaining utterly vague and incomprehensible. There’s a tree which is old
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Slovenia0:00/294.0373331× Last time I mentioned three kinds of horror films. The second kind, films made not for any artistic merit but because they're fun, most definitely applies to the silliest film I've seen since we left Pakistan. The film opens with an extremely
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Hungary0:00/351.8933331× The next three reviews were never planned as such (now that I've have a decent backlog of films for this project I'm watching them in acquisition order), but together they form a genuinely good overview of several distinct kinds of films. I&
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Romania0:00/336.4481× I struggled with The Whistlers, a Romanian film, and for reasons it’s taken me some time to understand. Obviously most of the films watched for this blog will be in other languages. I expect that. And I don’t mind watching a film that’s
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Georgia0:00/390.5493331× Before watching And Then We Danced I knew only three things about Georgia: they take dance very seriously (the Georgian State Dancers are globally famous – the movement of the original Daleks was based on them because they were seen as so memorable); they’re a former
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Ukraine0:00/335.0826671× I really struggled with this, and the reasons for it fascinate me. The Tribe is a film from Ukraine about a group of students at a residential institute for the deaf. (They may also be unable to talk – the film is ambiguous on that point. It’
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Portugal0:00/269.8881× My tolerance for art house horror is probably different to that of most people. It’s not that I’m a pretentious pseudo-intellectual who relishes obscure cinema (although I freely admit that I probably am), it’s that I like to view films as their
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Malta0:00/256.4906671× There are two kinds of boat films. There are the kind in which the ship that people find themselves on is actively trying to kill them (either because there’s a lunatic on board – Dead Calm – or because the vessel itself is the lunatic – Death Ship)
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Switzerland0:00/236.5226671× I said a few posts back that I was going to focus on horror because I believe that horror will be the genre with greatest ease of access. I stand by that. This started out as a desire simply to see if it was possible to