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Category: drama

May December (2023)

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment
Natalie Portman's Elizabeth assumes even the body language and dress of Gracie (Julianne Moore) in May December

"This is just what grown-ups do”

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Charles Melton, Christopher Blauvelt, Cory Michael Smith, Julianne Moore, Michel Legrand, Natalie Portman, Todd Haynes

Evil Does Not Exist (2023)

October 12, 2023October 13, 2023 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Water flows downhill"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ayaka Shibutani, Eiko Ishibashi, Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

December 30, 2022December 31, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"If he loves me, he should understand and leave me alone."

Posted in drama, streamingTagged Cesare Zavattini, Luciano De Ambrosis, Vittorio De Sica

Both Sides of the Blade (2022)

September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"To understand, the choices made. To be falling down both sides"

Posted in dramaTagged Christine Angot, Claire Denis, Grégoire Colin, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon

The Souvenir Part II (2021)

February 2, 2022September 12, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"She can always make another one"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ariane Labed, Charlie Heaton, Harris Dickinson, Honor Swinton Byrne, James Spencer Ashworth, Jaygann Ayeh, Joanna Hogg, Richard Ayoade, Tilda Swinton

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)

October 7, 2021September 19, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Forget what you know"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ana Lily Amirpour, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, Gralen Bryant Banks, Jeon Jong-seo, Kate Hudson

Bergman Island

October 7, 2021October 8, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

“The large bedroom was where he filmed Scenes from a Marriage, the film that caused a million divorces”

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Anders Danielsen Lie, Ingmar Bergman, Mia Hansen-Løve, Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps

Hopper / Welles (2020)

August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

“The director should be a magician or a poet, not a God.”

Posted in documentary, dramaTagged Dennis Hopper, Orson Welles

Pig (2021)

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"Who's got my pig?"

Posted in cinema, drama, Edinburgh Film FestivalTagged Adam Arkin, Alex Wolff, Michael Sarnoski, Nicolas Cage, Nina Belforte, Patrick Scola, tt W. Bachman, Vanessa Block

Undergods (2020)

May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"Let's kill the big one for meat"

Posted in cinema, drama, Glasgow Film Festival, science fiction, streamingTagged Adrian Rawlins, Chino Moya, Géza Röhrig, Johann Myers, Kate Dickie, Khalid Abdalla, Ned Dennehy, Tanya Reynolds

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