Author: Michael Pattison
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Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s War Trilogy DVD Review
On one level, Mr. Bongo’s release of Oleksandr Dovzhenko‘s so-called ‘War Trilogy’ appears to be…
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Holy Motors Review
With its reflexive focus on performance and a seemingly dense fabric of intertextual references, Holy…
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Wonderful London DVD Review
As the writer Samuel Johnson reportedly wrote, “when a man is tired of London, he…
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We Are Poets Review
We Are Poets, a well-assembled, energetic and often hair-raising documentary chronicling the participation of a…
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Wuthering Heights DVD Review
Similar to Honour of the Knights (Quixotic), Albert Serra’s stripped, sparse 2006 adaptation of Don…
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AV Festival: Let Each One Go Where He May
In Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)’s incredible penultimate of thirteen one-take scenes,…
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AV Festival: Finisterrae
The second film of the AV Festival shot by Catalan cinematographer Eduard Grau – the…
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AV Festival: Slow Cinema Weekend, Part 5 – Two Films by Ben Rivers
This is the concluding part in a series of editorials on the AV Festival’s Slow…
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AV Festival: Independencia
Independencia (2009) takes as its title the Spanish word for “independence”. Set on an island…