Cronenberg mixes the weird with the normal in this anti-Hollywood satire that is biting but doesn’t quite touch the clouds.
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Memory (2023)
Franco’s work features nuanced and quietly affecting performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, as it explores the unlikely encounter between a man suffering from the onset of memory loss and a woman with unresolved trauma.
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Jesus, You Know (2003)
In what could be Seidl’s least provocative film, he tackles the notion of pure religious faith as a single, static camera is objectively set up in various churches to capture several devout Catholics in private conversations with Jesus.
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Girls Will Be Girls (2024)
Featuring finely-tuned performances, this Sundance winner breaks taboos in quietly restrained ways, about an Indian girl in a Himalayan boarding school who discovers love and sex amid a repressive patriarchal order.
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Exploring #11: Andrei Tarkovsky
‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
American Factory (2019)
A Chinese conglomerate sets up shop in a vacant factory plant in Ohio, transforming livelihoods but also creating cultural and social tensions in this well-made if not particularly memorable Oscar-winning documentary.
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Dangerous Method, A (2011)
While at times vacuous, this Cronenberg picture is still intellectually stimulating, and most certainly one for the arthouse crowd.
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Taste of Things, The (2023)
The pleasures of food and romance in cinema make an exquisite return with one of 2023’s most underappreciated gems, about a renowned chef and his long-serving cook in their autumnal years whom he one day hopes to marry.
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Lovely Rita (2001)
Hausner’s bleak feature debut can be difficult to watch, adopting lo-fi aesthetics and conspicuously fast zoom-ins, as an outcast teenage girl tries to cope with the problems of family and school by seducing an older man and a younger boy.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023)
A son films his dying father’s last performances on the piano in this elegiac final tribute to one of the most creative musical minds of the last 50 years.
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