Terrence Malick was the director who got me in to film, I was 14 when I caught The Thin Red Line on tv at 2:00am by complete chance and I was completely blown away by the beautiful cinematography and score and film being used as a poetic medium which I'd never seen before. I don't think it's…Read more A Hidden Life (2019)
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First Love (2019)
This film is director Takashi Miike's 103rd directing credit (!!) and the first thing I've seen of his. It's a bonkers, madcap story spanning one night of mayhem in Tokyo as the Yakuza goes to war with the Chinese Mafia over some missing drugs and a young sex worker who has escaped her Yakuza captors…Read more First Love (2019)
Ema (2019)
Of the four films I managed to see this year at the London Film Festival (Earthquake Bird, Ema, First Love and A Hidden Life), this was easily my favourite, even if it is hard to compare films with such different aims, this had the biggest impact on me and felt the most daring. The film follows Ema…Read more Ema (2019)
Earthquake Bird (2019)
Before I start I have to admit that my opinion may be a little skewed here as I went into this film annoyed at myself because in my rush to book tickets for the London Film Festival, I booked this film without realising that it was at the same time as the ony available screening…Read more Earthquake Bird (2019)
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