Revenge
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ROLLING THUNDER (Dir. John Flynn, 1977, US)
* * William Devane is one of those dependable character actors who got around but never quite broke through as a main lead. Clearly, Rolling Thunder was an exception. Maybe it was Devane’s nose; weaselly and needle like that made him somewhat unlikable. Devane had that finely tuned yet somewhat irritating softly spoken art of Continue reading
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BADLAPUR (Sriram Raghavan, 2015, India) – Purgatory
Director Sriram Raghavan fourth directorial feature Badlapur opens with a brave bit of tableaux cinema. We can’t quite figure out where to look; the frame is wide open with the camera observing at a distance everyday street life, all in a single take. A bank robbery and the violent getaway disrupts the ordinariness of the Continue reading
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