Category: Road Movie
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The Lorry (1977)
Though I don’t remember much of the details in the story told within Le Navire Night, directed by Margeurite Duras, I remember the feeling of the film and how it blurred into the experience of watching it alone on a laptop in the dead of a sleepless night. Duras’ words on the narration, the movement… Read.
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Kaili Blues (2015)
When it comes to slow cinema, there can sometimes be a split inside myself during the experience. Like in Kaili Blues (2015), there’s a beautiful long take of the camera watching Chen Shen (Yongzhong Chen) on the back of a motorbike as it winds around mountain roads, greenery and mist in the landscape behind them.… Read.
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Dudes (1987)
Memories of the Dudes (1987) VHS cover in the Comedy aisle of a video store, Jon Cryer and Daniel Roebuck with their hands up next to a cactus, promising fish-out-of-water laughs with two punkers in a western, radiating Bill and Ted comparisons, or even Wayne’s World (not knowing as a kid that they were from the same director, Penelope… Read.
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Trenque Lauquen (2022)
I only heard about the film Trenque Lauquen (2022) through Simon Miraudo reviewing it on Letterboxd. A four hour shaggy-dog mystery from Argentina might have passed me by, but it completely sounded like something that I’d like to seek out. Directed and co-written by Laura Citarella, this is a mystery that ventures off into different… Read.
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Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2023)
“Where’s the director? … I have one word for you: emotion.” Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2023) is the third film of Romanian director Radu Jude’s that I have seen and I love his approach and style. Taking inspiration from Jean-Luc Godard and others, Jadu makes essay-films that bring… Read.
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