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THE OUTFIT (Dir. John Flynn, 1973, US) – ‘The Good Guys Always Win…
* * * * Flynn’s The Outfit, based on the prolific crime writer Donald Westlake, followed on the heels of Peckinpah’s The Getaway which was released a year before in 1972. In fact, if one was going to cite a key film in terms of attempting to contextualise a kind of cinematic lineage then it Continue reading
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JORAM (Dir. Devashish Makhija, 2023, India) – Bury the Tribal
* * * * Joram has the acute radical socio-political sensibilities of Parallel Cinema films that were often made as a rejoinder to systemic structures that were unyielding and oppressive. Filmmaker Devashish Makhija’s latest feature Joram blends genre with politics, adopting the concept of the chase expressly the ‘man on the run’ from the law Continue reading
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THE DELINQUENTS (Dir. Rodrigo Moreno, 2023, Argentina) – Time Out
* * * I wonder if the logic behind Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents emerged from the anti-work movement, a post Covid phenomenon that saw many quit their jobs because they didn’t want to continue working in a torturous capitalist system geared towards monotony, compliance and exploitation. In the doubling equation Moreno poses the question; what Continue reading
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MASTER & COMMANDER: FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Dir. Peter Weir, 2003, US)
* * * * Peter Weir is both a skilled craftsman and great storyteller. Now retired, Weir’s last film was back in 2010. His body of work is water tight and encompasses films made in Australia expressly the classic Picnic at Hanging Rock, and later in the US when he made the leap to Hollywood Continue reading
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THE FURNACE (Dir. Roderick MacKay, 2020, Australia) – Outsiders
* * * This shimmering jewel of a postcolonial Australian Western set in the outback in 1897 is one to savour. Written and directed by newcomer Roderick MacKay, The Furnace unearths a repressed history untold, the story of ‘Ghan’ cameleers – Sikh and Muslim men from Afghanistan, Persia and India who migrated to Australia to Continue reading
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