Under Southern Eyes – Page 78 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo: an ordinary documentary short with little to say and leaving too many unanswered questions

Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege, Issa Touma, “9 Days – From My Window in

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Nagisa Oshima, “Ai no korida / In the Realm of the Senses” (1976) Forty years

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Thomas Vinterberg, “Festen” (1998) “Festen” remains the best-known and most mainstream of the various films

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John Lee Hancock, “The Founder” (2016) How do you make an engrossing film about a

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Noboru Iguchi, “Dead Sushi” (2012) In the tradition of wacky Japanese comedy horror flicks comes

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Kenji Mizoguchi, “Ugetsu” (1953) Two interwined morality plays about peasants blinded by thoughts of personal

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Stanley Kubrick, “The Shining” (1980) In most directors’ hands, a Stephen King horror novel of

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Tommy Tykwer, “Lola rennt / Run Lola Run” (1998) A mundane plot set in Berlin

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John Pilger, “Secret World of the US Election: Julian Assange Talks to John Pilger” (RT.com,

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Tadashi Imai, “Yuki: Snow Fairy” (1981) In the hands of Tadashi Imai, notable as a

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