Under Southern Eyes – Page 144 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

Living in Fear: unusual and eccentric black comedy about finding redemption in digging up landmines

Chuyen Bui Thac, “Living in Fear” / “Song trong so hai” (2005) It’s mid-1975, the

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Mikhail Karyukhov and Alexander Kozyr, “The Sky Calls” / “Nebo Zovyot” (1959) A visually stunning

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Risto Orko and Alexander Ptushko, “The Sampo” (1959) A joint Finnish-Soviet fantasy production aimed at

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Alexander Dovzhenko, “Arsenal” (1928) Notable for its skilful use of montages of images to create

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René Laloux, “Fantastic Planet” / “La Planète Sauvage” (1973) A very absorbing animated science fiction

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Sergei Eisenstein, “Alexander Nevsky” (1938) Unashamedly patriotic and stirring action-movie propaganda for the masses and

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Martin Scorsese, “Taxi Driver” (1976) As a character study of a lonely and alienated man

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Andrei Tarkovsky, “Stalker” (1979) For Western audiences used to fast action science fiction movies, “Stalker”

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Marek Pestrak, “Pilot Pirx’s Inquest” / “Test Pilota Pirxa” / “Doznanie Pilota Pirksa” (1979) A joint

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Sergei Parajanov and David Abashidze, “Ashik Kerib” (1988) The last completed film by Georgian /

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