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drax (71)in #film • last month
Film Review: The Little Prince (1974)
When people tell of “films that they don’t make any more”, they can do it with visible sadness or with a sigh of relief. 1970s, arguably the most interesting decade in history of…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Film Review: The Parallax View (1974)
Mainstream media have decided that conspiracy theories represent such danger for the world that anyone who could be branded “conspiracy theorist” deserves Internet equivalent of…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Film Review: Serpico (1973)
These days, when "liberal" and "progressive" opinion makers openly celebrate the idea of Julian Assange dying in prison, it gets more and more difficult to imagine a world in…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Film Review: Turkish Delight (Turks fruit, 1973)
Netherlands has built reputation of the Europe's most tolerant and permissive country. This reputation found away to reflect itself on Dutch cinema or, to be more precise, Dutch'…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Film Review: The Offence (1973)
In early 1970s Sean Connery was working very hard to distance himself and his career from the role of James Bond as much as possible. Thus he became involved in series of…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review Series Ends, New Series Begins
Before I continue with next posts, I must inform my regular readers that the previous post represents the last in Retro Film Review series. The series was based on my…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Go (1999)
In second half of 1990s many film-makers tried to repeat the success of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction by taking inspiration from its plot, characters or narrative structure. Few…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Wing Commander (1999)
Hollywood in 1990s provided many arguments for those claiming that films based on video games were bad idea. On the other hand, there was Mortal Kombat to prove those…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: EdTV (1999)
We live in really interesting times. What only few years ago looked like the plot worthy of futuristic satire is now prosaic reality. And, to make things even more interesting…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Cruel Intentions (1999)
Although faced with long-term creative crisis, Hollywood very reluctantly takes literary classics as the basis for its commercial films. The reason for that is in its dependence…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Compared with the rest of Europe, Denmark looks like small country. But this perception changes if Danish self-governed territory of Greenland, which happens to be the world's…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Rushmore (1998)
In late 1990s most of Hollywood films were - just as they are now - “safe”, predictable, formulaic and utterly forgettable. This was especially so when the plots were set in or…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Arlington Road (1999)
Some Hollywood films, while not good in depicting the world in which they were made, are good in presenting the mindset of their makers. One of those films is Arlington Road …
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: The Notebook (2004)
John Cassavetes became one of the most respected American film-makers by defying conventions of mainstream Hollywood. His son Nick, on the other hand, embraces those very…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Levity (2003)
There are some films that, for some almost unfathomable reason, seem to justify their existence despite lacking any sort of originality or special quality. Levity , 2003 drama…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Novocaine (2001)
Steve Martin gave one of the most memorable performances of his career in the role of dentist in 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors . Fifteen years later Martin again…
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drax (71)in #film • last month
Retro Film Review: Ned Kelly (2003)
Australia appears to have relatively short and uneventful history compared with other parts of the world. Yet Australians share one trait with all other nations – tendency to…
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drax (71)in #film • 2 months ago
Retro Film Review: Election (1999)
State of Croatian cinema theatre business is so bad that anything other than major Hollywood blockbuster and "Oscar" nominees has very little chance of appearing in cinema…
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drax (71)in #film • 2 months ago
Retro Film Review: Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (1998)
By the end of 1990s The X-Files finished its transformation from cult science fiction drama into mainstream and immensely successful television product. This reflected on…
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drax (71)in #film • 2 months ago
Retro Film Review: The Winslow Boy (1999)
David Mamet has built his reputation of Hollywood's top script doctor thanks to his talent with words. Those words often belonged to sections of vocabulary not particularly liked…
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