Tag: michael pattison
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Roland Hassel
Retired detective Roland Hassel (Lars-Erik Berenett) makes a phone call from a convenience store to…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Colour of the Chameleon
Taking on chameleonic qualities, The Colour of the Chameleon (Tsvetat na Hameleona) is a smart…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Lunarcy!
Titular puns and punctuation marks included, Lunarcy! establishes a kind of informal register before it’s…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: From Tehran to London
At the present crossroads, the conditions under which Iran’s national cinema is being made (or…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Taboor
With a distinctive opening and an almost transcendent closing shot, Iranian writer-director Vahid Vakilifar’s second…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Deep
“Of course, I’m nothing but a drop in the ocean,” says Gudlaugur Fridthórsson, the real-life…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: When Night Falls
That Shanghai-born writer-director Liang Ying’s fourth feature in six years has proved to be such…
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In the Fog Review
Though its opening shot (a roaming, choreographed long-take that doubles as a showcase for impressive…
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Bradford International Film Festival 2013 Preview
This year’s Bradford International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday 11 April, and runs until…
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Vito DVD Review
As its title suggests, Vito (2011) is concerned primarily with the biographical details of its…