Movies
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Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film…
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Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching
Hauntings have been a presence throughout David Lowery’s artistic output – naturally in his 2017 breakout A Ghost Story, but even before…
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Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of…
Although the settings and specific genre trappings vary, time-loop films are generally united by the theme of bettering oneself in…
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Leonora in the Morning Light review – too many…
In 2024, Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s Les Distractions de Dagobert sold at Sotheby’s for £22.5 million, making her the highest-selling British…
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Mark Jenkin: ‘I like looking backwards in order…
The devil is in the details for Mark Jenkin. His DIY approach to cinema is consistent across many short films,…
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Preliminary Visions of a Girl-Online
While there is a significant reliance on found footage, the filmmakers use scrappy technology like iPhones, Nintendo DSes, webcams and screen…
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Michael review – legacy management 101
Forget all the bad stuff you ever knew about Michael Jackson. Wipe it from your mind. If you happen to…
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Ultras review – shoots and scores
Swedish filmmaker Ragnhild Ekner is a diehard IFK Göteborg fan and was partly driven to make a documentary about ultras, a subculture of…
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Rediscovering Singapore’s first action heroine
“Are you sexy, beautiful and fast?” An advertisement in a 1977 edition of Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times asked. “Beautiful, sexy…
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Rose of Nevada review – a gorgeous Cornish…
I came into this world eyes crossed, the small tip of my nose made bow. The moment my spine steadied…
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