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Fantasy

North American Films

Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria: an ingenious look at how a country’s history is made, remade and reinterpreted

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David Blair, “Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria” (2010) After finishing “WAX or the Discovery of Television among the Bees”, director David Blair set about picking…

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Northern European Films

Medea (dir. Lars von Trier): human struggle against forces of Nature and God in a beautiful and emotional film

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Lars von Trier, “Medea” (1988) Originally made for TV and with a script based on that other famous Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s adaptation of Euripides’s play “Medea”, this…

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French and French-language Films, North American Films

Birds of a feather, let’s flock together: four film shorts about birds illustrate something universal about human behaviour and social life

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Pierre Coffin, “Pings” (2 shorts, 1997) Ralph Eggleston, “For the Birds” (2000) Dony Permedi, “Kiwi!” (2006) All four films are about birds obviously but they’re also about…

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