A piece on 1994’s HALF-COCKED for Aquarium Drunkard’s Videodrome column.
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Final day of the online press screenings includes a mesmerizing Vietnamese fever dream, a dreary Swiss drama, and a lovingly melancholic animated short. Plus, some final thoughts on this First Round of 2021’s two part Berlinale Film Festival.
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In this installment, we look at the final Competition movies available. This includes the moving documentary MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS, the genre-defying Netflix doc A COP MOVIE, and a seven-minute movie that packs quite a punch: YOUR STREET.
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It’s a trifecta today: a brilliant three-chapter Japanese film WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY, the impressive Iranian tragedy BALLAD OF A WHITE COW, and the psychedelic mind-bending document of Hawaii that is Fern Silva’s ROCK BOTTOM RISER.
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Day Three of the Berlinale Industry Event online screenings includes a look at Céline Sciamma’s PETITE MAMAN, Alexandre Koberidze’s WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?, Soi Cheang’s cops vs serial killer movie LIMBO, and another trip to Hungary in Benedek Fliegauf’s FOREST - I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE.
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The 2021 Berlinale Industry Event diary continues. This time, we go down the rabbit hole with THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST, get gobsmacked by BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONEY PORN, visit the darkness and NATURAL LIGHT of Hungary in WWII, dodge our responsibilities in the Canadian countryside in SOCIAL HYGIENE, and wrap up a long day with a dire ALBATROS.
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Altogether, around 150 at-home screenings were made available to the press. We had five days to watch them. I was able to watch 22 of them. This is Part One.
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A long read on the 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival.
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Are superhero movies a real risk to cinema, or have movies changed in such a way that cinema is no longer found in cinemas?
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QUEEN & SLIM attempts to look at all sides of identity, fate and myth-making within a broken system, and its the rare film that feels both important and super cool.
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