Author: Greg
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Trees Encountered
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Battle Royale
Fukasaku | 2000 | Japan So glad I saw this for the first time in a cinema (where it paradoxically played as a “cult classic” to a sold out auditorium on a cold Monday night). One of those experiences where you can appreciate how original this would have been contemporaneously while also clocking how undeniably […]
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Melbs
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Exit 8
Kawamura | 2025 | Japan Oh yes, thank you very much. I am a sucker for a simple premise infused with layers of pathos and, importantly, executed more or less to perfection. Right when I was talking about cycles (regarding Last Night in Soho), along comes a literal representation of the psycho-cyclical essence of life […]
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Last Night In Soho
Wright | 2021 | UK & USA 3rd watch. A film I’ve gone all the way around the world with. I really didn’t care for it the first time. I don’t have notes from that viewing but l remember feeling like there was a good movie in here that was never quite drawn out; interesting […]
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Predator: Badlands
Trachtenberg | 2025 | USA I was skeptical that this would be interesting to me. Inverting the narrative perspective of a Predator film from the prey to the predator seemed like it would rather defeat the purpose. To go one step further and give a ‘predator’ a hero’s journey seemed patently silly. But one of […]
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Heretic
Beck & Woods | 2024 | USA 2nd watch – and on the couch with The Girl, a rare treat in our parenting era. This didn’t blow me away the first time but only because I’ve seen too many movies and it ended up being exactly what I thought it would be. Still, one enjoys […]
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Nouvelle Vague
Linklater | 2025 | France & USA Pour moi, this was a romp. I have some awareness that if you don’t have a preexisting relationship with À bout de souffle, this would be hard to get excited about. But as somebody who went out of his way in Paris to walk the street where Godard […]
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L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche
[The Great Arch]Demoustier | 2025 | France Something about doing a PhD focused on design thinking has turned me into a soft touch for all matters of design (which permeate all of life – la vie – of course). Stories about ‘visionary’ designers have a tendency of either obfuscating the relationship between a design and […]
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Parker | 1982 | UK 2nd viewing; 1st in cinema. And it’s been at least 20 years since that first watch, because apparently now I’m old enough to talk about time in decades instead of years. Over those two decades, the importance of this album has only grown in my mind – it is well […]