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DIRECTED BY: Abbas Kiarostami FEATURING: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase PLOT: Akiko is a young female student moonlighting as a call girl; her pimp sends her on an assignment in the suburbs, where her client, Takashi, is an elderly professor who doesn’t seem terribly interested in her carnal services. When he deigns to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (2012) DIRECTED BY: Ben Wheatley FEATURING: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Harry Simpson, Emma Fryer PLOT: Jay the hitman, out of the game and down on his luck, takes up a new contract with his partner Gal to help support his wife and young son. As they start knocking people off a “Kill . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: KILL LIST (2011) A note about the following essay, from the author. Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1999 film directed by James Marsh, an oddball, morbid documentary inspired by a 1973 nonfiction book of the same title. The film is structured as a chain of anecdotes and vignettes about life in small-town Wisconsin in the late 1800′s. This . . . → Read More: THE POISONOUS IMAGE IN WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP (1999) Guest essay by Jesse Miksic. Warning: this analysis contains spoilers for Return to Oz (1985). The Three Fetishes: Transformation and Ethical Engagement in Walter Murch’s Return to Oz (1985) There is a vast mythology out there, deeper and wider than Middle Earth or Hogwarts, and yet more intimate, more rooted in the flights of fancy . . . → Read More: THE THREE FETISHES: TRANSFORMATION AND ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT IN WALTER MURCH’S RETURN TO OZ (1985) |
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