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MOVIES REIMAGINED FOR ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

What if movies we were all familiar with were made in a different slice of time? Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are…

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Fight For Your Right Revisited

Saturday, May 5, 2012

You can watch Adam Yauch’s very funny Fight For Your Right Revisited for free (probably only temporarily) on Mubi.

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CREEPY CINEMATIC SURGERIES

Monday, April 23, 2012

Here are 10 Creepy Cinematic Surgeries of World! The best may be Ida’s in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

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THE SPOTLESS MIND

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The wish to forget about things is very common in all of us. How memory and the loss of it works is not that well researched yet. In Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) two former lovers undergo a procedure that erases the memory of their relationship. French artist [...]

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URBAN OPERETTA

Monday, March 26, 2012

R.Kelly’s legendary music-video-drama-series Trapped in the Closet is coming back! The next installments of the R&B musical will be broadcast “this year”, as IFC recently announced.
The first 12 instalments of Trapped in the Closet came in 2005, with additional 10 chapters in 2007, of course following several parodies on US-TV. If you haven’t seen the [...]

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A SEPARATION

Monday, March 19, 2012

A Separation is an exquisite film that begins slowly but soon grabs you by the throat as it explores the fine line between truth, honesty, loyalty and justice. This critically acclaimed Iranian drama film is recommended viewing! – I finally got the chance to see it last weekend. It has won the 84th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language [...]

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LLIK YOUR IDOLS

Saturday, March 10, 2012

“Llik your Idols is an intimate survey of a VERY particular time in downtown NYC – the mid 1980s – when the fallout of a decrepit city manifested itself through the psyches of young and wild artists, musicians and filmmakers banging into each other in the scum drenched streets. Sex, drugs, violence and rock’n’roll took [...]

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PressPausePlay

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? [...]

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SHAME

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I saw Steve McQueen’s new film, Shame over the weekend. The performances by the lead actors, Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan are quite sensational. What I really liked about this movie too is its pace – it’s slow-moving in a mesmerizing way and it is set in the moment so you’re not given the back [...]

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WHOSE IS THIS SONG?

Friday, February 24, 2012

Whoever travelled the balkan region with backpack and sleeping bag might very well have met the locals and encountered the people’s love for traditional songs. Making music and singing is still very common in this region and even the cool teenagers don’t find it embarrassing to sit outside with their families and singing along to [...]

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