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FERRARI (Dir. Michael Mann, 2023, US) – Time & time again
* * * A project on Enzo Ferrari seems so natural for someone like Mann who is pretty much the most stylish filmmaker of the past thirty years or so. His films ooze an unwavering stylish elegance. A trawl back through his films and it becomes evident how well so many of his characters dress, Continue reading
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SORCERER (Dir. William Friedkin, 1977, US)
* * * * William Friedkin’s 1977 remake of Cluzot’s The Wages of Fear is one of the most atmospheric Hollywood films of its era. Arguably Friedkin’s best film after The Exorcist, Sorcerer was for a very long time a footnote in the end of an era – the New Hollywood one, including films like Continue reading
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THE TWO JAKES (Dir. Jack Nicholson, 1990, US)
The Two Jakes is less a sequel and more of a flamboyant continuation and expansion of the sun kissed noir universe of Los Angeles that Polanski brought to life in Chinatown. Everyone knows a project of this type had no chance of working without the creative involvement of Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, Continue reading
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THE MEAN SEASON (Dir. Phillip Borsos, 1985)
Long before Tom Cruise decided to patent the running on screen just to look cool thing, Kurt Russell was busting similar sprint speed marathons in many of his films. In The Mean Season, Russell really goes for it, bombing it through the streets of Miami so he can try and save his girlfriend from the Continue reading
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SONCHIRIYA (2019, India, dir. Abhishek Chaubey)
The Dacoit Western is a transnational film genre forged out of a synthesis between the Dacoit film and the Italian Western in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The dacoit in popular culture has undeniably been represented with ambivalence, chiefly as a romantic figure, existing outside mainstream society. Yet the rebellious nature of the dacoit, Continue reading
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