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Watch the steamy, NSFW trailer for Gaspar Noé’s ‘Love’
Gaspar Noé’s Love, which premiered in the Midnight screening section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, looks like it could make the Blue is the Warmest Color sex scene seem pretty tame in comparison. This English trailer for the controversial title, his first feature since 2009’s Enter the Void, is a highly NSFW, steamy, sexy, […] More
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The Best, The Middling and the ‘What-Happened-Here?’ of Cannes 2015
Who knew that watching films can be this exhausting? The first thing any press person at Cannes will tell you is probably how tiring festival grind is – press screenings from 8.30 am till midnight, endless queueing sessions (variously put to use for writing up or sun-tanning), the adrenaline rush of the literal rush to […] More
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Cannes ’15 completes lineup with Gaspar Noé’s ‘Love’
The Cannes 2015 lineup wasn’t done quite yet. Today, several films were added to the Un Certain Regard and In Competition categories, bringing the final, completed lineups of each up to 19 films. Chief among them is Gaspar Noé’s Love, “a sexual melodrama about a boy and a girl and another girl. It’s a love story, […] More
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The Definitive Kubrickian Films: 30-21
The difficulty in counting down films so clearly influenced by Kubrick is that there are certain directors who are just tailor-made for it. So, you start to run into situations like this section of the list, where two directors have two films and two other directors had a film mentioned in the last section. But […] More
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The 5 Best Music Videos Of The Week
[vsw id=”0P7N_vlvU8w” source=”youtube” width=”640″ height=”400″ autoplay=”no”] 5) Quadron “Hey Love” Quadron’s pleasant “Hey Love” kicks off this week’s list and it doesn’t set the tone for the rest of the list at all. Nice juxtaposition though, maybe? The performance driven video is fun and enjoyable as it focuses on a number of different dance routines, […] More
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‘Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning’
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning Directed by John Hyams Written by John Hyams, Doug Magnuson and Jon Greenhalgh USA, 2012 Although it looks like a generic action movie on paper, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is actually a lot messier on screen, both physically and stylistically. Combining Gaspar Noé-style strobe light disorientation and long takes with David […] More
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100 + Greatest Horror Movies (pt.4) 75-51
Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of his favorite Horror films of all time. The list will be posted in six parts. Click here to see every entry. More
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TADFF 2012: ‘Universal Soldier – Day of Reckoning’: a generic action movie disguised as art house
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning Directed by John Hyams Written by John Hyams, Doug Magnuson and Jon Greenhalgh USA, 2012 Although it looks like a generic action movie on paper, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is actually a lot messier on screen, both physically and stylistically. Combining Gaspar Noé-style strobe light disorientation and long takes […] More
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TIFF Cinematheque presents a Summer in France: ‘The Bride Wore Black’ has a reputation that precedes it, but not nearly as good as advertised
The Bride Wore Black Directed by François Truffaut Written by François Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard France, 1968 The Bride Wore Black has a reputation that precedes it. It’s critically lauded, from the 1960’s, in French, by the legendary François Truffaut, a paean to Alfred Hitchcock, and the afflatus to Quentin Tarantino. This should be a […] More
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Inside Out 2012: ‘Bye Bye Blondie’ is suffused with libertine barbarism and moral ambivalence
Bye Bye Blondie Written and directed by Virginie Despentes France, 2011 Perhaps a paean to the 1960 stage musical and its 1963 film adaptation, Bye Bye Birdie, Virginie Despentes’ Bye Bye Blondie tries to be the social satire its American counterpart was. But with a protagonist suffused with libertine barbarism and a narrative of moral […] More
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‘Innocence’: An Education In Gender Norms
*This Post Contains Spoilers* Her first and only feature, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s 2004 film Innocence, adapting the German novella Mine-Haha, is one of the most elegant explorations of the social construction of female gender ever committed to film. Contrasting sharply with husband and occasional collaborator Gaspar Noe’s urban staccato style, Innocence is full of gentle camera […] More
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Link of the Day: Interview with Tom Kan for Art of the Title
Love or hate Enter the Void, there is no denying Gaspar Noe’s first person after death rollercoaster ride has some of the best opening sequences of the past ten years (perhaps, all time). Evoking crazed experimental work from the sixties (T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G, anyone?), Godard, advertisement and Noe’s assaultive style sequence designer Tom Kan brings this all […] More
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