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The Intruder (2004)
As a filmmaker, Claire Denis offers elliptical narrative experiences, introducing us to a few characters, observing their faces and their movements, and only gradually revealing the connections and histories between them. The Intruder (2004) is even more elliptical than her other films, complicating our understanding with the inclusion of dreams and recurring figures who may be more… Read.
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The Plot Against Harry (1971)
I love a movie where an operator makes the rounds. Our protagonist moves around their world, connecting with other characters and settings, each a mini-world of their own. Each stop along their circuit is another insight, another layer into our main character. The Plot Against Harry (1971) is about a Jewish low-level criminal named Harry… Read.
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Dead Heat (1988)
My favourite accounts on instagram, TV Hed Pde and VCR Of Death, have been independently shown one clip from Dead Heat (1988), the excessive scene where Treat Williams with half of his face looking like a zombie and a security guard fire submachine guns into each other’s torso for what feels like five minutes, standing… Read.
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Reflection In A Dead Diamond (2025)
What I appreciate about Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Let The Corpses Tan, The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears) as filmmakers is that they are fetishists. Drawing upon memories of genre cinema – a gesture, a moment, a flourish – and not simply re-creating them, but deconstructing and exploding them. With Reflection in a… Read.
