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Coup 53 (2019)

August 21, 2020February 21, 2021 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"...it's a 'debotle'!"

Posted in documentary, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Iran, politics, Ralph Fiennes, Taghi Arirani, Walter Murch

Make Up (2019)

August 18, 2020November 24, 2020 Dave McAllister4 Comments
Make Up poster

"Do you know a girl with long red hair?

Posted in cinema, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Claire Oakley, Joseph Quinn, Molly Windsor, Stefanie Martini

A White, White Day (2019)

July 4, 2020July 5, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"What do you want to do?" "To build a house" "What don't you want?" "To stop building it"

Posted in Edinburgh Film Festival, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Edmund Finnis, Elma Stefania Agustsdottir, Hlynur Pálmason, Ingvar E Sigurðsson

The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 Dave McAllister13 Comments
Melissa Guers as Lise, the accused, in The Girl With A Bracelet

“If you go to prison, can I have your room?”

Posted in cinema, London Film FestivalTagged Anaïs Demoustier, Chiara Mastroianni, La Fille au Bracelet, Melissa Guers, Stéphane Demoustier

This Is Not A Movie (2019)

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"It would be nice to believe that Foreign Correspondent, the [Hitchcock] movie, was the real thing"

Posted in streamingTagged Amira Hass, Robert Fisk, Yung Chang

A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

June 5, 2020November 4, 2020 Dave McAllister4 Comments

"There's something romantic about gamblers, and old songs, and meeting under a clock"

Posted in blu ray / DVD, streamingTagged Cherry Jones, Diego Luna, Elle Fanning, Griffin Newman, Jude Law, Liev Schreiber, Rebecca Hall, Selena Gomez, Timothée Chalamet, Vittorio Storaro, Woody Allen

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

May 31, 2020June 1, 2020 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"I want to make sure that you're safe and I want to help you if I can"

Posted in streaming, Sundance LondonTagged Hélène Louvart, Julia Holter, Sharon Van Etten, Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin

East of Eden (1955)

April 28, 2020April 25, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"I guess there's just a certain amount of good and bad you get from your parents and I just got the bad."

Posted in cinemaTagged Elia Kazan, James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

Divorce Iranian Style (1998)

April 25, 2020February 21, 2021 Dave McAllister4 Comments

"When a woman is trying so hard to live with you and be respectful why do you treat her badly and disrespect her? Is this the proper way to behave?"

Posted in cinema, documentaryTagged Barrie Vince, Christine Felce, Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini

A Letter to Elia (2010)

February 8, 2020February 9, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"What kind of person must a film director be?"

Posted in cinemaTagged Elia Kazan, Elias Koteas, Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese

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